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Clearly, BRI is not just about helping others. The search for new engines for domestic Chinese economic growth is an important driver. China wants to boost growth in its western regions, which lag behind the well-developed east coast. Steel and cement are in oversupply and will be used in the BRI projects. There will be job creation for thousands of Chinese workers, as well as foreign nationals.

China’s Belt and Road blueprint augurs changed global order

By: EBR | Tuesday, May 16, 2017

Domestic quarrels and a distaste for global engagement may be the hallmarks of Donald Trump’s erratic presidency of the United States, but the world is moving on

“Youth are the nation. They will build it and rebuild it,” the artist and UNESCO Special Envoy told an audience in Durban, where he was speaking on the plight of South Sudan, a war-torn nation where the majority of people are under the age of 30. ”There is a passion and an energy that young people have that makes them a catalyst for change.”

1,000 global leaders just met in South Africa. Here’s what happened

By: EBR | Friday, May 12, 2017

The values of leadership and inclusive growth in Africa were writ large in a meeting that brought together over 1,000 leaders from more than 100 countries

Taiwan has invested over US$6 billion in international medical and humanitarian aid efforts that have benefited millions of people directly or indirectly in over 80 countries since 1996.

Photography exhibition launch “Leave No One Behind: World Health Security Needs Taiwan, Taiwan Needs the WHO”

By: EBR | Wednesday, May 10, 2017

The exhibition features a selection of photographs and films that portray the contribution of the Republic of China to medicine and public health around the world over many decades

The selection of the next WHO director-general is underway and a vote by member-states will take place this month in Geneva. The role of the new DG will be essential to driving change, both within the WHO and across the globe. The new DG must not only steer the WHO in urgent matters including pandemic preparedness, emerging health challenges and reform, but must do so in the context of a much broader view of the world in which the WHO is operating and while leading organisational and financial reform. Indeed, financing for the WHO is inseparable from a vision of its purpose and its relationship with its member states and stakeholders.

Health leadership in a multipolar world: A view from Europe

By: EBR | Tuesday, May 9, 2017

Europe is still the most powerful international player in global health. But in an increasingly multipolar world, where differences between the developing and developed health worlds are dissolving, the way we look at global health is outdated

With regards to the actions taken to the problem of space debris in Europe, the Space Situational Awareness (SSA) programme is on board since 2009 with three segments Space Weather (SWE), Near Earth Objects (NEO) and Space Surveillance and Tracking (SST) and aims to gain awareness on the situation in Space by tracking all the objects that constitute a potential threat. Through Space surveillance, it is possible to detect, catalogue and predict these objects on time and place with great accuracy. Using sensors, such as telescopes or radars, provide a powerful tool for the characterisation of the orbital debris environment and its route changes.

Space debris: the junk of global concern

By: EBR | Tuesday, May 9, 2017

Space is vast and feels untouchable yet more and more space debris is released into Earth orbit

Now comes the hard part: turning rhetoric into reality and commitment into progress. With the demand for an IFFEd well established, we are ready to bring the call for a mass mobilization of international finance for education to those who can make it happen. We will do so at the IMF-World Bank Spring Meetings this week, at the G20 summit in July, and at the United Nations General Assembly in September.

In 2050, Africa will be home to 1 billion young people

By: EBR | Friday, April 28, 2017

And they'll need educating

To illustrate with an example, the standard treatment for advanced lung cancer is chemotherapy. That gives patients an average of 10 more months. But if the cancer has a particular mutation, a targeted oral compound will give them 48 more months, on average. And 48 months of that oral therapy actually works out cheaper for the provider because they’re not dealing with, for example, costly hospitalizations resulting from the toxic effects of chemotherapy.

What will healthcare look like in 2030?

By: EBR | Wednesday, April 19, 2017

With so many novel therapies being developed, there has never been a more exciting time to be practicing medicine, says Dr Andre Goy, Chairman and Director, Chief of Lymphoma, John Theurer Cancer Center, Hackensack University Medical Center

The bidding process is another area of concern that needs immediate re-invention. The IOC ought to become more humble and strategically proactive. It should reach out to a limited number of properly screened candidates (hosts) and convince them to take up the mantle, promising assistance it will receive to prepare for and deliver the Games.

How to save the Olympic Games from extinction

By: EBR | Monday, April 10, 2017

Paris in ’24, LA in ’28, then go multi-city: The Olympic games needs a fix before it’s too late

“The choice of Taiwan was made not only with regards to its central geographic location and ease of operating logistics, but also considering its status of being the freest place in Asia in our annual Press Freedom Index ranking,” said Christophe Deloire, secretary-general of the Paris-headquartered group, also known by its French name Reporters sans Frontieres.

Reporters Without Borders select Taiwan for their Asian bureau

By: N. Peter Kramer | Monday, April 10, 2017

Taiwan is set to host the first Asian bureau of Reporters Without Borders, the Paris-based press freedom watchdog announced April 6

While large Latin American businesses often have distant major economies as their top export markets, SMEs – those engaged in international commerce – tend to trade more within the region. Easing barriers to regional trade and investment would help more SMEs follow in the footsteps of Grupo Arcor, which started in 1951 as a candy factory in Argentina’s Córdoba province and is today a multi-billion dollar company with production facilities across Latin America and sales to 120 countries.

As Western economies look inward, what’s the future for Latin American trade?

By: EBR | Thursday, April 6, 2017

Latin America’s economic downturn seems finally to have bottomed out. Positive, if modest, growth is forecast for this year. But as the region recovers from the end of the commodity super cycle, a new threat is weighing on growth prospects: protectionism and economic nationalism

In the US House of Representatives all 193 Democrats were against the Republican dismantling of Obamacare. If more than 22 Republicans would have vote against the plan for Trump Care would have been cancelled. But a number of Republicans in the House said Trumps proposal was still too expensive and looked too much like Obamacare.

Who’s to blame for cancelling Obamacare replacement bill?

By: EBR | Monday, March 27, 2017

At approximately the time that the US House of Representatives was supposed to vote on Speaker Paul Ryan’s Obamacare replacement bill, the American Health Care Act (AHCA), news broke that the vote again was cancelled

The present focus of our economic and political discussions seems to completely miss the mark. We have now a historic window of opportunity to shape technological breakthroughs, such as artificial intelligence and gene editing, in the service and for the benefit of humankind. We have two options. We can either fully use the opportunities of the Fourth Industrial Revolution to help lift humanity to new heights, or we can allow ourselves to be controlled by the forces of technology and end up in a dystopian world in which citizens will have lost their autonomy.

Klaus Schwab: We need a new narrative for globalization

By: EBR | Friday, March 24, 2017

The world is at a historic crossroads. Market extremism, often labelled neoliberalism, which has shaped our national and global policies for the past three decades, has become a toxic fuel for the stuttering engine for global growth

The report specifies that electric vehicles must become the predominant car type in 2050, liquid biofuel production must grow ten-fold and high efficiency all-electric buildings should become the norm.

Renewables can reduce CO2 emissions by 70% by 2050

By: EBR | Friday, March 24, 2017

Global carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions from the energy sector can be reduced by 70 per cent by 2050 and completely phased-out by 2060 with a net positive economic outlook – according to new findings

Technology is also shaping many of our background assumptions or perceptions, and this in turn can shape our understanding of and attitude towards risks. We live in a world defined by both the accelerating pace of technological change and the uncertainty this speeding up causes. Anecdotally, at least, more and more of us feel that we are running to stand still – just about keeping pace with some technological developments that affect us but largely oblivious of many others and unsure of how they all fit together.

Do you understand the risks of technological progress?

By: EBR | Thursday, March 23, 2017

Any change can be unsettling, but changes as profound as those being unleashed by the current phase of technological development – known as the Fourth Industrial Revolution – are prone to be particularly destabilizing

These are what the THE calls powerhouse institutions, universities whose research output is exceptional, but in many cases hasn’t been reflected in their reputation scores. Make no mistake: these universities are good at what they do, and if they continue to perform well, their reputations will grow and grow.

These universities are poised to overtake Harvard and Cambridge

By: EBR | Friday, March 17, 2017

The most illustrious universities in the world have been the same for decades. Centuries even

So, this ambitious Earth Observation programme involves 60 companies across 20 European countries plus Canada and the USA, led by Airbus Defence and Space as the prime contractor company. And that’s not all. In a statement NASA said, “given the similar mission concept of the US Landsat Data Continuity Mission (LDCM), ESA and NASA entered into a collaborative agreement… The Sentinel-2 constellation also provides great opportunities for fusion with Landsat 8 and the Landsat constellation, and US researchers look forward to continuing work with European colleagues on characterizing both sensing systems.”

Space: Still an important Matter of National Prestige?

By: EBR | Wednesday, March 15, 2017

During the Cold War, space technology and manned space missions were seen as a matter of national prestige

On Sunday, Erdoğan claimed that “Nazism is still widespread in the West” in what Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte said were inflammatory remarks. “We ended up in a totally unprecedented situation in which a NATO ally… with whom we have historic ties, strong trade relations, is acting in a totally unacceptable, irresponsible manner,” Rutter told reporters. Rather than the Netherlands apologising for refusing the Turkish ministers entry, Turkey’s president should apologise for comparing the Netherlands to fascists and Nazis, he said. The row risked spreading on Sunday as Denmark’s Prime Minister Lars Løkke Rasmussen proposed postponing a planned visit by Yıldırım this month due to the dispute.

Erdogan pledges to punish ‘Nazi remnant’ Netherlands ‘in harshest way’

By: EBR | Tuesday, March 14, 2017

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan called the Netherlands a ‘Nazi remnant’ and said the country should face sanctions for barring Turkish ministers from speaking in Rotterdam, fuelling a row over Ankara’s political campaigning abroad

In addition, Erdogan seeks a constitutional amendment to overturn the presidency’s traditionally nonpartisan status, which would allow him to claim official leadership over the AKP. He no doubt hopes to avoid the fate that befell two past leaders, Turgut Ozal and Suleyman Demirel, who also aimed for the presidency and abandoned their powerful parties only to see them implode in subsequent parliamentary elections.

Why Erdogan is on a Nationalist Path

By: EBR | Monday, March 13, 2017

Erdogan' s embrace of nationalist rhetoric and actions could have important repercussions on Turkish foreign policy

As the U.N. learns to draw legitimacy from the people, it should involve those very same people in implementing the agenda they help to define. The network of global institutions needs to find a way to raise funds from actors other than nation states. That will help create more accountability in the system and foster greater inclusivity. When Warren Buffett “signed papers that give $31 billion to the Gates Foundation,” did it cross his mind that the U.N. could deploy those resources to advance public interest as well, if not better? If the answer is no, it’s time for a serious self-evaluation. By attracting funders other than Nation States, be it major gifts from philanthropists and corporations or micro-contributions from general public, the U.N. will not just secure financial resources – it will gain stakeholders vested in its success.

3 ways to reboot globalization

By: EBR | Friday, March 3, 2017

Last week, Mark Zuckerberg announced “Facebook's plan to bring the global community together

This dramatic decline is primarily down to the US having been demoted to a “flawed democracy,” in the classification of the EIU - as a result of low public confidence in the government. The report stresses that this was strongly in evidence prior to the presidential election that saw Donald Trump become president. Similar trends were also in evidence in many other developed economies.

Which are the world’s strongest democracies?

By: EBR | Friday, March 3, 2017

Democracy is in decline

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