Exports to other EU nations rose only 0.1%. German imports were flat compared with September and down 0.6% on the year. The unexpectedly upbeat exports report followed data last week showing that factory orders and industrial production both declined in October. Germany only narrowly avoided ...
For a large part, the law of the sea is based on a tension between sovereignty and freedom. Sovereignty projected out to sea is, in essence, the claim by coastal States to extend their exclusive control over the adjacent sea. Freedom, on the other hand, means the recognition and preservati...
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Micro-, small, and medium-size enterprises (MSMEs) form the backbone of economies. Across the 16 countries we examine, MSMEs account for two-thirds of business employment in advanced economies—and almost four-fifths in emerging economies—as well as half of all value added. Th...
Despite SCD's substantial health burden in Africa, there is no coherent funding effort to address it on the scale of initiatives such as the Gavi vaccine alliance or the Global Fund for malaria and HIV. Moreover, most high-burden African countries have no budgetary alloca- tion for SCD ...
I’ve just pointed out in my previous post re capital punishment that the nations most enamoured of state killing are the most patriarchal – Confucionist China with its massively male-dominated government, and the Islamist governments of the Middle East with their veiled and silenced women. Of ...
While the ocean has long been portrayed as a victim, threatened by global warming and acidification, it is now increasingly framed as a key ‘solution’ to the climate crisis. For instance, at the launch of the United Nations (UN) Decade for Ocean Science for Sustainable Development, hosted ...
68 Words 1 Page Open Document Us commoners were very angered by our unfair treatment, and our hunger for change was growing stronger. On July 14, 1789, we attacked the Bastille, a French prison. We raided the prison for weapons and gunpowder. This day was considered to be the start of ...
“However, as 2023 has demonstrated, the future could scarcely be brighter for this green, clean source of energy. “If current projections hold, our global community of nations will add more renewable energy to the grid over the next five years than it managed over the past hundred years ...
Upon becoming Prime Minister of Italy, Mussolini had to form a coalition government, because the Fascists did not have control over the Italian parliament. Mussolini’s coalition government initially pursued economically liberal policies under the direction of liberal finance minister Alberto De Stefani,...