Despite long-standing efforts by successive U.S. administrations to rein in U.N. spending, the United Nations this month presented its top donors with a request for nearly $1.1 billion in additional funds over the next two years – boosting current U.N. expenses by 25 per cent and marking the global body's
Ford Motor Company announced that it will sell its Jaguar and Land Rover divisions to India’s Tata Group. This is the latest example of the changing nature of Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) in the United States, says Matthew J. Straughter, associate dean at the Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth
If John McCain and Barack Obama become the candidates for the U.S. presidency, we may see a subtle, but useful shift in the debate over how health care is provided in America. Both men recognise the key question in health care reform is not coverage, but cost, says Michael Tanner,
Apparently, putting everyone in Medicare (i.e., creating a universal system like Canada's) leads to worse results than having only some people in Medicare (i.e., having a mixed public/private system), says John C. Goodman, president of the National Center for Policy Analysis.
For example, in a National Bureau of Economic Research study,
