Yearly Archives: 2017

Slow climb back for Nunavut’s seal export industry after exemption from EU import ban Rannva Simonsen of Rannva Design received half of the 61 seal export certificates issued by the Government of Nunavut since August 2015. She exports her products … Continue reading →

GENOCIDE Economist Apr 22nd 2017 Hage Geingob is in a bind. After years of perkiness, Namibia’s economic growth rate shrank from more than 5% in 2015 to a dismal 0.1% last year—and may now have stalled completely. But though President … Continue reading →

Economist Dec 19th 2015 A phroase is repeated like a mantra around Ulaanbaatar, the steppe capital: “Mongolia is back in business.” The prime minister, Chimed Saikhanbileg, has said it several times. Foreign mining executives and diplomats have also taken up … Continue reading →

Big miners have a better record than their critics claim. But it is up to governments to balance the interests of diggers, locals and the nation Economist Feb 6th 2016 A couple of hours drive south of Arequipa, Peru’s second … Continue reading →

LEGALIZING RHINO HORN??  Economist May 4th 2017 A dead rhino, with a bloody stump in place of its horn, means different things. For the species it is the danger of imminent extinction; for wildlife-lovers it is barbarism; for law-enforcers it … Continue reading →

India’s water nightmare – India’s water shortage owes more to bad management than drought Econimist May 14th 2016 At the dawn of time Lord Vishnu made gods and demons join in churning the milky oceans to extract an elixir of … Continue reading →

WOMEN & WORK Sept 8 2018 Economist Lakshmi, the goddess of wealth and fortune, is the closest thing Hinduism has to an economic deity. How poorly her earthly sisters in present-day India are faring. There, women are less likely to … Continue reading →

Economist Dec 5th 2015 It has become the “essential item for every man’s bag”, says Kim Jin-ho, who runs IOPE, a high-end skincare line owned by AmorePacific, South Korea’s biggest cosmetics firm. Its male “Air Cushion” compact, launched last year, … Continue reading →

Making Indonesia work Economist Feb 27th 2016 One Indonesian trade minister, Rachmat Gobel, once wanted to ban the import of secondhand clothing because, he said, it could transmit the HIVvirus. He also restricted imports of beef to promote the dubious … Continue reading →

Why Israel needs a Palestinian state Economist May 20th 2017 The victory of Israel over the Arab armies that encircled it in 1967 was so swift and absolute that, many Jews thought, the divine hand must have tipped the scales. … Continue reading →