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Javier Solana was Foreign Minister of Spain, Secretary-General of NATO, and EU High Representative for Foreign and Security Policy. He is currently President of the ESADE Center for Global Economy and Geopolitics and Distinguished Senior Fellow at the Brookings Institution.
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“China can transmit real shocks widely,” the International Monetary Fund said in a recent report, “whether these originate domestically or elsewhere.”Learn the global impact on China's slowdown.
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The origins of the dispute date back centuries but came to a head last month after Japan nationalized the tiny islands, called Senkaku in Japan, the world's No. 3 economy, and Diaoyu in China, the world's No. 2 economy. The move set off violent protests in at least two dozen Chinese cities. Angry mobs torched a Panasonic factory, looted several Japanese retail outlets and burned Toyota and Honda car dealerships.Learn what the long term effect is here.
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We publish bracingly creative and intelligent journalism with a broad worldview, built primarily for the devices closest at hand: tablets and mobile phones.Quartz features top news, analysis, photos, data visualizations, commentary and more.
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It is well recognized that entrepreneurs cannot succeed in a vacuum. They need customers, partners, suppliers, employees, legal, financial and educational institutions, as well as governmental bodies and proper infrastructure.Learn more here.
Ecosystems are made of environment, actors and interactions.
This year the participants of the forum will discuss this thematic through a round-the-world tour of ecosystems highlighting:
• Highly resource-endowed ecosystems
• Resource-constrained ecosystems
• Specifics of education within a sustainable ecosystem
• Territorially-constrained ecosystem (regional or local identity)
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Thank you for this opportunity to present the OECD’s agenda for growth and our initiative on New Approaches to Economic Challenges (immediate download of PDF file) I think you’ll agree that now more than ever, we need to shine a brighter light on these issues. Before I expand on this, let me first describe some of the economic and social realities we all face.New Approaches to Economic Challenges: An OECD Agenda for Growth
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The Group of Seven, formed in the 1970s by the world's leading countries in response to the energy and economic crises of the time, played a positive role in coordinating global economic policies. But the influence of the organization began to decline in the late 1990s — coincidentally, about the same time Russia joined the organization in 1997. The G8 turned into a series of PR events devoid of any real substance.
