Will the disaster become a catalyst?
IN 1999, Turkey experienced an earthquake which, according to official estimates claimed the lives of 17,000 people. Apart from unleashing widespread death and destruction, the quake’s violent tremors also became catalytic...
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Wages at subsistence level
IN economics, land, labour, capital and organization are the factors of production. Correspondingly, national income is divided among rent, wages, interest and profits. There are different theories for determining the level of all these remunerations to the factors of production....
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The opportunities we missed
AS the energy crunch looms larger, many countries around the world are scrambling to secure long-term arrangements to meet their energy needs. The recent developments on the Iran-Pakistan-India gas pipeline project...
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The referendum may solve nothing
IRAQ’S much-anticipated October 15 national referendum on the country’s new democratic constitution may end up spawning more problems and challenges for the star-struck country, and its still-befuddled government, than it solves....
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