Graduates in Italy seem to be leaving the country in droves and it’s beginning to show.
Read MoreAn interesting POV in WSJ on which languages to teach/learn and how for tomorrow’s success. Hint: It’s not French.
Read MoreIn their recent meetings, Obama and Jintao discussed China’s ‘new world order, in which [China]’s needs come first.’ Robert J. Samuelson of the Washington Post reports on the disputes between China and the US involving trade, subsidies, international businesses, and technology.
Read MoreWall Street Journal’s India Real Time notes that in 2011, Indian companies are ramping up hiring to sustain their rapid growth. Industries include construction & real estate, pharmaceuticals, education, manufacturing and retail.
Read MoreUnemployment remains at record-highs in Japan for new graduates, which does not bode well for the country overall as the tradition of hiring new workers as retiring workers go upsets the economic apple cart.
Read MoreStudy abroad matters and although it’s expensive, there are ways to make it work — and new places to go such as China, India and South Africa.
Read MoreIn this month’s Atlantic, Chrystia Freeland argues that the revolution in information technology and the liberalization of global trade has created a new global elite. Although individual nations have provided their own contributions to income inequality – financial deregulation and upper-bracket tax cuts in the United States, insider privatization in Russia, rent-seeking in regulated industries in India and Mexico – everything flows much more freely on a global scale these days.
Read MoreThis in-depth piece published in BusinessWeek explores the role the U.S. Government is playing in attracting businesses to Afghanistan. Can Afghanistan really be a new business frontier?
Read MoreAn interesting comparison in the Economist about Western expats in China and their Chinese counterparts in the West.
Read MoreGreat piece by Nicholas Kristof on the importance of learning Spanish first, as Americans. Not only is our school system set up to learn Spanish, it can be a much easier language to learn, practice and apply in real-life, be it for a career or simply travel to our neighbors in the south who are growing in importance.
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