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NEW HAVEN – Suddenly, there is a credible case for a vaccine-led economic recovery. Modern science has delivered what must certainly be one of the greatest miracles of my long lifetime. Just as COVID-19 dragged the world economy into the sharpest and deepest recession on record, an equally powerful symmetry on the upside now seems possible

02 декабря 2020 5 мин. 6217

China’s Global Climate Boost

BEIJING – In his video address to the United Nations General Assembly in September, Chinese President Xi Jinping announced a slight improvement of China’s 2015 Paris climate agreement pledge: national carbon dioxide emissions should now peak before 2030 rather than around 2030. That might not seem like much, but, paired with Xi’s additional declaration that China aims to be carbon neutral before 2060, the address sent positive shock waves through the climate-policy world

30 ноября 2020 5 мин. 4902

America Should Rewrite the China Trade Contract

NEW DELHI – Once US President-elect Joe Biden’s administration has made the relatively easy decisions to rejoin the Paris climate agreement, remain in the World Health Organization, and attempt to reboot the World Trade Organization, it will confront three key foreign-policy issues. In order of importance, they are China, China, and China

27 ноября 2020 6 мин. 7975

Mikhail Lomtadze: We are looking for other markets expansion

The CEO and co-founder of Kaspi.kz was interviewed by Natalya Lim, the Partner of PricewaterhouseCoopers Tax and Advisory LLP. The PwC Kazakhstan team is launching a series of ‘Conversations with Interesting People’

26 ноября 2020 9 мин. 9446

Biden Picks Janet Yellen For Treasury Secretary

He has already lined up a number of high profile hires for his new administration

25 ноября 2020 3 мин. 7110

America Must Mend Many Fences on Trade

WASHINGTON, DC – Until 2016, global leadership was a hallmark of American greatness. The United States was at the forefront of establishing and supporting the United Nations, the International Monetary Fund, the World Trade Organization, and much else. America was exceptional in that, despite its stature at the end of World War II, it chose to build a world order through multilateralism and global institutions, rather than pursuing reparations and unilateralism

24 ноября 2020 5 мин. 5807

GM Sets Sites On Overtaking Tesla With $27 Billion Push For EV Market Dominance

General Motors is shifting into overdrive on electric vehicles to carve out a bigger share of that market, with plans for dozens of new models, redeployment of engineers to a dedicated electric vehicle division and committing $27 billion for battery and autonomous technology development to overtake Elon Musk’s Tesla

23 ноября 2020 4 мин. 8376

Oxford Vaccine Induces ‘Robust’ Immune Response In Older Adults, Early Findings Show

With global Covid-19 cases now beyond the grim milestone of 55 million, the news of safe and reliable vaccines are welcome, especially when effective in some of the most at-risk groups of serious disease