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The “right” Latin America will thrive in the New Year, fueled by ts own growth – with an assist from the continued hot growth from China – while the “wrong” Latin America will get left behind.

The second phase of emerging markets expansion is well on its way – a period of self-sustaining growth, driven by [...]

Surely, lots of people were given a wish for the year 2007 not to play a lousy trick on them. I don’t know whether somebody addressed the same wishes to the online gambling industry… But apparently, no one can say that the year turned out to be particularly successful. Let us have a look at [...]

When looking up Namibia in your travel guidebook you will read about the vast open plains of the Etosha National Park, the small coastal resort of Swakopmund with its old colonial buildings or the red sand dunes surrounding Sossusvlei and Deadvlei. But rarely do you come across an article that explains in detail the different [...]

Property prices in Andorra, second only to Monaco in popularity among Europe’s tax havens, have risen consistently over the last decade by an average of ten per cent a year, and in the last two years by over fifteen per cent.

But a lack of snow and tourists in December and January has stopped the rise [...]

Albanians have always been proud people. Western society has not yet irreversibly affected them, since traditional and are very proud of their country. Albanians are very proud and proud of their glorious past such as the Illyrians and who are the ancestors of the Albanians, Alexander the Great, Blessed Mother Teresa (Gonxhe Bojaxhi), actors and [...]

Chapter 1: Introduction
In the dissertation I will try to show how young Muslims become radicalized by Islam and ultimately join terrorist organisations. Firstly focusing on Albert Cohen’s work on the delinquent subculture, I will look at how young boys become part of a delinquent group. Is it just the working class who are frustrated by [...]

The state plays a very important role in international political economy and is considered as the ultimate decision maker in both economic and political decisions. International Political Economy (IPE) is about the interaction between state and market. Based on tangible and intangible power or, military and economic power, the world can be divided into two [...]

At the Working Capital Management Forum 2008, held in London on October 23-24 at the height of the financial turmoil, SSON convened a roundtable debate to discuss the impact of the crisis on working capital practices – and on organizations in general. Hosted by online editor Jamie Liddell and attended by speakers and delegates to the conference, [...]

Helio Resource Corp.’s (TSX.V:HRC) project generator model is starting to yield results, both in terms of attracting other juniors as joint venture partners, and on its own flagship SMP property in Tanzania.

The company’s portfolio of 27 gold, base metal, and diamond licenses in Namibia, Botswana, Mozambique and Tanzania have also started to attract the [...]

Executive Summary – The drug laws are not working. Everyone knows this. Eighty percent of the people in the massive USA prison system are locked up for drugs or drug related reasons. If the other countries legalize drugs, drop the victimless crime of money laundering (almost always tied to drugs so if drugs legal, then [...]