Global Voices · Citizen media stories about Economics & Business from May 2008

Economics & Business · May, 2008
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Stories about Economics & Business from May, 2008

31 May 2008

China: Donation Pressure on Multinational Companies

Written by Oiwan Lam · Quick Reads · East Asia

30 May 2008

These weeks the bloggers have been chewing upon traditionally prominent topics on the Kazakhstani blogosphere — politics and economy. Megakhuimyak says [ru] – “without aspiration to make a global-scale conclusion”...

Egypt: Strike Number Three

Written by Amira Al Hussaini · Quick Reads · Middle East & North Africa

29 May 2008

East Timor: New blog about economics of development

Written by Paula Góes · Quick Reads · East Asia

Bermuda: Freedom or Manipulation?

Written by Janine Mendes-Franco · Quick Reads · Caribbean

Nicaragua: A Closer Look at a Government Program for Microloans

Written by Rodrigo Peñalba · Latin America

The governmental program called Usura Cero provides low interest rate loans to Nicaraguan women for their micro-businesses. It was recently featured on an investigative news program and a local blogger...

28 May 2008

Algeria: Third World Countries

Written by Amira Al Hussaini · Quick Reads · Middle East & North Africa

China: Chinese Red Cross on corruption watch

Written by John Kennedy · East Asia

Bloggers continue to monitor earthquake corruption, as they wait for the truth to come out as to why so many school buildings collapsed so easily in this month's massive earthquake....