One global plan for stricter safety standards at Bangladesh’s garment factories would be better than two competing ones.
Bangladesh awaits changes in its garment industry
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Monthly Archives: July 2013
Quebec rail disaster shines critical light on oil-by-rail boom
North America’s shale oil boom has driven a resurgence of shipping oil by rail, but the recent disaster in Quebec reopens the argument about whether it is safer than shipping by pipeline.
Anatole Kaletsky: Who gets credit for U.K.’s economic turnaround?
New Bank of England Governor Mark Carney and U.K. finance minister George Osborne may prove to have been in the right place at the right time.
Five things you need to know about the E.U.–U.S. free trade talks
The first is that the talks will likely be longer and more complicated than initially hoped for.
The emerging global innovation elite
Innovation is more global and more dispersed that ever, but it remains as concentrated — spikey, in the jargon of academics — as ever.
Global FDI: developing economies on the rise
For the first time ever, developing economies surpassed developed ones as recipients of foreign direct investment (FDI) in 2012, accounting for $703 billion, 52% of the global total.
Lessons from China’s credit crunch
One consequence of China’s recent credit crunch will be to speed up financial market reforms that will let the People’s Bank of China better manage monetary policy.
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