Full Coverage: Economy

31.05.2005 Le peuple français vient de dire non au traité constitutionnel. Un non très majoritairement démocratique et européen. Ce faisant, les citoyennes et les citoyens ont d’abord dit non au néolibéralisme, dont le texte soumis à référendum constituait une éloquente défense et illustration.

30.05.2005 In Lakhimpur Khare, a small village in the heart of Uttar Pradesh, a resident enquired about the prices of LG washing machines and TVs displayed on a website.

27.05.2005 If copyright laws are the heavy-duty locks shackling Africa's art and information instead of letting them bask in the attention of a global audience well, Heather Ford has the key to freeing the continent's creativity.

21.05.2005 An investment company from Puglia, Italy, had a meeting with Anastas Angjeli, Minister of Economy, in Tirana. During the Meeting, they presented their project for the Koplik area, where the company plans to develop an industrial zone. The project will be submitted to the Government for approval.

20.05.2005 "Steadily prudent economic policies" have resulted in Africa's highest economic growth in eight years, according to a new report from the community of wealthier nations and the African Development Bank. But more debt relief, action against corruption, and support for small businesses is still needed, it said.

18.05.2005 The environment and its management is a major part of BhutanÂ’s development plan, and one of the four pillars of Gross National Happiness (GNH). Bhutanese law requires 60 per cent of the country to remain under a green cover. Already, over a quarter of BhutanÂ’s land has been set aside in the form of protected areas.

18.05.2005 The UPA government in India, which is about to complete one year in office, had decided to celebrate its birthday by announcing a massive investment of Rs 1,74,000 crore to renew and strengthen rural infrastructure.

17.05.2005 This report updates UNCTAD's ICT Development Indices to benchmark ICT development and review trends in the digital divide worldwide.

17.05.2005 For as long as most technologists can remember, there has been "Wintel," the $250 billion industry dominated by Microsoft's Windows operating systems and Intel's microprocessors.

17.05.2005 In February 2005 the field of ICT statistics recorded several new steps towards the formation of a core set of harmonized and internationally comparable ICT statistical indicators.

16.05.2005 In this article, Indian President A.P.J. Abdul Kalam discusses the technological achievements of four of our institutions: the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO), the Delhi Metro Rail Corporation (DMRC), the Nuclear Power Corporation of India of the Department of Atomic Energy, and the Department of Telecommunications.

16.05.2005 Knowledge Public License (KPL), a licensing program that will let programmers share ideas with one another while at the same time allowing them to retain the rights to their own software modifications, is the brainchild of Deepak Phatak of the Indian Institute of Technology.

16.05.2005 The PC market is abuzz with several new low-cost brands launched during the last few weeks. Will these new devices hit big time, or will they go the way many small computers have: Talked about and praised, but rarely seen or bought?

16.05.2005 Behind the headlines about China's economic boom is the story of entire regions that live in desperate poverty. Ranking behind Algeria, Botswana, and Turkmenistan in wealth per person, more than 100 million Chinese live on less than a dollar a day. Mercy Corps Communications Director Jeremy Barnicle traveled to rural China and brings us reports from the field.

13.05.2005 As the Malayasaian government plans to recruit more than 2000 heads in the first Multimedia Super Corridor (MSC) Recruitment Fair, it is facing a mismatch in ICT skills in recent graduates and the current industry demands.

13.05.2005 Accessibility to Information Communication Technologies ICTÂ’s will determine the rate at which a knowledge-based economy will emerge in Antigua and Barbuda, expressed Dr Edmond Mansoor, Minister of State in the Office of the Prime Minister responsible for Information, Broadcasting and Communications in an information society seminar recently.

13.05.2005 Japan provided 134.5 billion yen ( approximately 5,600 crore)
Yen Loan to India in 2004.

13.05.2005 Citizens have shown themselves to be far ahead of the world's governments on matters of global aid and social justice. A new global campaign--whose symbol is the unmistakable white band worn anywhere on the body--has been launched to coincide with this summer's G8 summit of rich countries, demanding trade justice, debt cancellation, and more and better quality aid for the world's poorest countries.

12.05.2005 An inevitable legacy of the Paul Bremer administration in Iraq is a regulation permitting 100% foreign ownership of Iraqi companies. The new government is obliged to introduce a programme of privatisation. There are fears for both jobs and control of the economy.

11.05.2005 Vodafone (in conjunction with an advisory panel of academics, government officials, and NGO representatives) developed a research program to seek emprirical evidences of the social and economic impacts of mobile telecommunications.