Content tagged with “economy”
Surrounded by political uncertainty, the Egyptian economy has experienced a sharp decline over the past two years. While the Egyptian government struggles to maintain macroeconomic stability and...
Tags: Egypt, economy, Middle East, private sector, economic statecraft Roundtable featuring Former World Bank President Robert Zoellick in conversation with the Peterson Institute for International Economic's Steven Weisman. The Washington Ideas Roundtable Series is...
Tags: economy, International economics Today, roughly four million Americans earn wages at or below the federal minimum wage of $7.25 an hour. For a family of four, this wage falls beneath the poverty line. As President Obama recently...
Tags: economy, low wage, work The renaissance in U.S. energy production in recent years, especially in natural gas, provides a strong wind at the back of the U.S. manufacturing sector. Citigroup estimates that 1.1 million jobs...
Tags: Manufacturing, Energy, gas, fuel, production, Environment, economy Watch Wall Street Journal economics editor David Wessel discuss the federal budget and the US economy, along with his book Red Ink: Inside the High-Stakes Politics of the Federal Budget, in the...
Tags: Election 2012, economy, Federal Budget, Gildenhorn Book Series The first installment of the Fall 2012 Alma and Joseph Gildenhorn Book Series features Wall Street Journal Economics Editor David Wessel discussing his recently published book 'Red Ink: Inside the...
Tags: Debt, economy "[T]he lens in which the politicians of our country see everything is ideology, partisanship, and their own personal reelection."Starbucks CEO Howard Schultz speaks about companies balancing profit...
Tags: Election 2012, unemployment, economy, Business and Society Lebanon ranked 45th worldwide on the annual 2012 Failed State Index authored by Foreign Policy and Fund for Peace, indicating a slight improvement but still falling within the "most unstable...
Tags: Development, Civil Society, economy, Security With the unemployment rate among youth reaching 19%, waves of Lebanese graduates continue to leave their homes for more promising jobs overseas, especially the UAE. With unemployment and...
Tags: economy, unemployment, incentives, cooperation, private sector, youth In Washington for meetings at the International Monetary Fund, Lebanese economist and advisor to the Ministry of Fiannce Toufic Gaspard addressed a group of policymakers on the economic opportunities...
Tags: Finance, Jobs, economy, stability, unemployment 
