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Commentary: Is post-revolution the time for entrepreneurship?
By Dr Hala Hattab CAIRO: It might seem farfetched to encourage people to…
European diplomacy’s first test
By Giles Merritt BRUSSELS: It took eight years of ill-tempered political wrangling to…
Peace now for Palestine
By Marwan Muasher and Javier Solana MADRID/WASHINGTON, DC: As revolutionary change sweeps across…
Japan’s nuclear morality tale
By Brahma Chellaney NEW DELHI: The troubles of the Fukushima nuclear-power plant —…
Equal and full citizenship must replace sectarianism
By Sheikh Ali Gomaa CAIRO: All Egyptians — Christian and Muslim — have…
The crisis of microfinance
By Shashi Tharoor NEW DELHI: The recent ouster of the Nobel Prize-winning Bangladeshi…
Slowing China
By Barry Eichengreen BERKELEY: With the world’s rich countries still hung over from…
The EU’s band-aid on a bullet hole
By Daniel Gros BRUSSELS: Is the euro crisis any closer to a resolution?…
Government Handouts Won’t Placate People of the Middle East
By Aaron Rhodes and Jacob Mchangama The realization that, just as Libya was…