This week in our series, we talk about the economic crisis that became the Great Depression. One of America's greatest writers, John Steinbeck, described the depression this way: "It was a terrible, troubled time. I can't think of any ten years in history when so much happened in so ...
Sachs noted that the "big uncertainties" are in South Asia, Africa, and Latin America. "If those countries can use the East Asian approach to contain the epidemic, they will come out without disaster," he said. "Yet that is still far from assured." ...
Time will tell whether these struggling cities can change. In the meantime,Stackerlisted the 50 worst-run cities in the United States using the 2025 edition ofWalletHub's Best- and Worst-Run Cities in America, released in June 2024. Cities are ranked by their overall operating efficiency, whic...
These states were home to the most economic superstars in an analysis of U.S. metro areas. Jaclyn Jeffrey-WilenskyJan. 17, 2025 The Best Big Cities for High-Tech High-tech industries are an economic engine in these large metro areas. ...
- 《Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America》 被引量: 77发表: 2007年 Targeted interventions required against genital ulcers in African countries worst affected by HIV infection. It remains unclear why there is such marked variation in the severity of the ...
MEXICO CITY, April 14 (Xinhua) -- Latin America will suffer its worst economic contraction since the Great Depression this year due to the impact of the novel coronavirus pandemic and the collapse of raw material prices, the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and experts have warned. ...
Georgieva said the pandemic was hitting both rich and poor countries, but many in Africa, Asia and Latin America were at higher risk because they had weaker health systems. They were also unable to implement social distancing in their densely populated cities and poverty-stricken...
Malcolm Moore in Shanghai Banking shares across the world were hit after a stark warning from the IMF's former chief economist Kenneth Rogoff that the worst of the credit crisis is yet to come.Rogoff on banks: 'We're going to see a whopper go under' ...
Last week, the IMF’s managing director, Kristalina Georgieva, warned that the world was facing “the worst economic fallout since the Great Depression.’’ She said that emerging markets and low-income nations across Africa, Latin America and much of Asia were at especially high risk. And on...
Rauner, a former private equity executive himself worth hundreds of millions of dollars, was elected in 2014 as a reformer who would scrub Illinois’ government of corruption and restore sanity to its finances. “Illinois has become the worst-run state in America,” hetoldThe New York Timesday...