Flash and Facts

28 March 2014

A Slow, but steady, decline

Europe's high-tech industry continues its slow decline. Yet, technology plays a key role at all levels of the development of industry and services. A study by the firm A.T. Kearney paints a ...

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7 March 2014

Behind the Scenes (1)

The party is over. And the dark side of the Olympics Games reappears. Hundreds of people expropriated or displaced without real financial compensation; oversized and inadequate infrastructure which ...

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7 March 2014

Behind the Scenes (2)

The party has not yet begun. But what is most surprising is that one of the major sporting events in the world which will take place in Qatar in 2022 may have above all a positive impact on the ...

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18 February 2014

Technology versus Jobs

Is technology the enemy of employment? It is a fact that computers have substituded for a significant number of jobs. But let us not forget that changes in technologies have first shaken the face of ...

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18 February 2014

The Cost of Natural Disasters

A survey conducted by Munich-Re - the world's largest reinsurance company- revealed that the natural catastrophes killed more than 20,000 people and cost more than USD 134 billion worldwide in ...

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28 January 2014

Our Life Expectancy

Life expectancy has risen much in the last fifty years and should continue to do so also in the coming decades. Some estimates suggest that almost half of the increase in the average life span in ...

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28 January 2014

An Untenable Situation

Coal could supplant crude-oil as primary energy within 2 or 3 years. The main reason for this: coal is an abundant and quite inexpensive energy resource which appears to be relatively insensitive to ...

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10 January 2014

Here are the new customers

We know that 75% of households in the emerging economies expect a significant increase in their income over the next ten years. But only 40% of households in the developed countries expect such a ...

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10 January 2014

The better-connected Citizens

The development of new technologies and the widespread use of Internet is a key factor for stimulating economic growth. That is even more important in a country with a large population and with a ...

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17 December 2013

Drugs out of Stock

Hospitals and pharmacies in many countries around the world report increasing difficulties, including interruptions, in the supply of medications. How do we explain this worrying phenomenon ? And ...

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