By Ray Kwong | Pew Research asked nearly 38,000 individuals in 39 countries a simple question: Which comes closest to your view: China will eventually replace the U.S. as the world’s leading superpower; China has already replaced the U.S. as the world’s leading superpower; or China will never replace the U.S. as the world’s leading superpower? Depending on where you sit, their answers are surprising.
LONDON | By Commonwealth Correspondent Osmi Anannya | Profit making companies are permitted to operate publicly funded schools in both Sweden and the USA. Private sector investment could really help here by both building and operating schools.
Men had a harder crash during the recession, but a much better recovery, when compared with women, argues Mike Konczal from The Roosevelt Institute.
BEIJING | By Xia Huihan, via Caixin magazine | Chinese state-owned companies or SOEs should stop gaining muscle for the sake of the country’s economic health.
By Gustavo Matías | Despite a 30% drop between January and June, fundamentals are betting on a tight offer of commodities, but hot money is fleeing. Paper pulp prices are the strongest at their highs, energy refuses to lower down, and drinks, food and minerals are plummeting.
WASHINGTON | US Republicans have been exceedingly successful at targeting the white population vote. The problem, Pablo Pardo argues, seems to be that it is a shrinking market while Democrat support grows.
SAO PAULO | By Marcus Nunes | Despite all the Quantitative Easing charges, there’s simply ‘no inflation to be seen since the ‘recovery’ took-off four years ago.
By Ray Kwong | In recent years, international firms in China have faced greater scrutiny for price-fixing and corruption. No one is immune, as companies like Swiss snack giant Nestlé, American fast food purveyor McDonald’s, French supermarket chain Carrefour and German engineering group Siemens can attest. The latest high profile multinational in China’s cross hairs is British drugmaker GlaxoSmithKline.
By Knowledge@Wharton via The Fair Obsever | Apple has set up at least three foreign subsidiaries that are “not tax resident in any nation” in order to avoid paying millions of dollars. Is the US tax system broken? And how can one decide if the effective tax rate paid by a multinational is “fair”?
BARCELONA | By CaixaBank research team | Our scenario expects this expansion to continue in 2014 since the effects of the Bank of Japan’s quantitative easing should continue until well into the coming year.