Africa: New Dimensions of Human Security

From its traditional notions of national security, that has the nation-state as the soul guardian of security around realist motivations of appropriating both military and economic power over the pursuit of ethics and ideals, a paradigmatic shift to new dimensions of security emerged in the last three decades.

The Cost of Bin Laden: $3 Trillion Over 15 Years

As we mark Osama bin Laden's death, what's striking is how much he cost our nation--and how little we've gained from our fight against him. By conservative estimates, bin Laden cost the United States at least $3 trillion over the past 15 years, counting the disruptions he wrought on the domestic economy, the wars and heightened security triggered by the terrorist attacks he engineered, and the direct efforts to hunt him down

Africa needs higher education, trade for global competitiveness

African economies would require more investments in higher education, trade development, and tourism as well as women entrepreneurship if they are to compete favourably with other players in the global economic market place.

A new report, The Africa Competitiveness Report 2011, launched yesterday at the opening of the 14th session of the World Economic Forum (WEF) in Cape Town, South Africa, which contains detailed competitiveness profiles of the 54 countries in the continent, noted that improving the region's economic prospects on a global scale would be difficult without taking care of these key factors.

How will Bin Laden’s Death affect Global Economic Equations ?

News regarding Osama Bin Laden’s death on the night of May 1st did two big things for the U.S: it gave closure to a number of families grieving since the 9/11 attacks, and a massive job-approval boost for U.S President Barack Obama.

But how is the world’s most wanted man’s death likely to affect the global economy?

ILO-ADB report decries women’s limited access to jobs

ASIA and the Pacific are losing up to $47 billion annually because of women’s limited access to employment opportunities, according to a new report.

The report, a joint publication of the International Labor Organization and the Asian Development Bank, also said while the annual average employment growth for 2000-2007 was higher for Asian women than for men, 45 percent of working-age Asian women were inactive compared to 19 percent of men.

America doesn't only have a spending problem; it's got a revenue problem, too

"The law, in its majestic equality, forbids the rich as well as the poor to sleep under bridges, to beg in the streets, and to steal bread."

So wrote Jacques Anatole Francois Thibault, the real name of French novelist Anatole France, the 1921 Nobel laureate in literature.

Forum focuses on food security challenges

Sheikh Nahyan Bin Mubarak Al Nahayan, Minister for Higher Education and Scientific Research and Chancellor Higher Colleges of Technology on Thursday opened the Gulf Intelligence Food Security Forum hosted by the institution at its Centre of Excellence for Applied Research and Training (CERT) in Abu Dhabi city.

Sheikh Nahyan noted that lack of enough food resources threaten national and economic security of states as well as global environmental security.