Stories about Economics & Business from June, 2006
Albania: Corruption
Alwyn Thomson of Our Man in Tirana cites the results of a survey on corruption in Albania and realizes that healthcare is “the most corrupt public service insitution in the...
Uzbekistan & Kazakhstan: Cars as Indicators
neweurasia writes on cars as social, political, and economic indicators in Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan.
Lesotho: Why Africa is so poor
Sotho has an excellent post on “Why Africa is so Poor“……………..”Africa is waking up, however, and I hope it does so in my lifetime. The present state of affairs has...
Sudan: Increasing the gap between rich and poor
Sudanese Thinker comments on a new business development in “The Mogran of Khartoum” which will further increase the gap between the rich and the poor…..”This crappy damn project is made...
Philippines: Bad Customer Experience
Senor Enrique in Manila encounters and outsmarts a store that is ripping customers off with its refund policies.
Macau: Faster than a speeding bullet
Simon World reminds us that the world's fastest growing economy is in little Macau. Macau’s gross domestic product (GDP) grew by 18.8 percent in real terms in the first quarter...
Cayman Islands: Expat exodus
Cayman Bobby is concerned that the high cost of living in the Cayman Islands is driving expats like himself away, including some of his potential colleagues at the Royal Caymanian...
Caribbean: BLP role in CSME
The Barbados Labour Party blog gives its political leader — and Prime Minister of Barbados — Owen Arthur a pat on the back for the role he has played in...
Hungary: Bloggers on Taxation Changes
Henrik of Hungarian Accent writes on the reaction of the Hungarian blogosphere to the government's attempts to balance the budget. The prime ministers blog is also reviewed.
Iran: Handmade Indusrty Exposition
Hezar o yek rozaneh has published several photos from Tehran's Handmade Industry exposition. We can see women in local cloth and handmade decorative products.
Ethiopia: Business of exploitation & corruption
Weblog Ethiopia points to an interesting story in “Indian Ocean Newsletter” which discusses the relationship between a Lebanese businessman, Preem Holdings in Sweden, an Ethiopian-Saudi magnate, a French lawyer and...
China and Japan: Animation academy
Ben Ng reports that A Sino-Japan animation academy was established in Beijing on 11 June (zh). According to a statistic, in year 2004, the animation industry in China made 19.5...
Japan: whaling
Onemanbandwith notes that Japan has got to be disappointed because they have spent, on average, 100 Million US Dollars each in “foreign aid” to countries who voted down a proposal...
Haiti: Telecom Wars
Digicel billboard, Martinique. By blogger Greg at InternetRapide.com. Jamaica-based Caribbean telecom giant Digicel has a presence in over a dozen countries in the region. Digicel officially launched operations on the...
Haiti: Banking in 1946
From Haiti, Marcel Salnave of Parlons Peu posts an article written by his father, also Marcel Salnave, in 1946 on the Haitian banking system. Excerpt (Fr): “Banks have become very...
Armenia: Businesses Threaten to Close
Christian Garbis writes that the appreciation of the Armenian dram has led some Armenian businesses to threaten to close up in Armenia and move to neighboring countries.
Mongolia: Protest Claims Life
Yan notes that a protester in Mongolia has died after a confrontation with security forces. The protest was over mining issues and Yan says that the ongoing public debate over...
Bolivia: A De-dolarizing Rumor
Alvaro Ruiz-Navajas publishes a rumor he received via email that Bolivian President “Evo [Morales] will de-dolarize the Bolivian economy and turn all deposits held in American dollars (USD) to Bolivian...
Ukraine, Russia: Dreams of a Biased Person
Ukrainian LJ user parasolya may admit to her anti-Russian bias a bit too eagerly, but all she wants is for Ukraine to be on friendly – and neutral – terms...
Arabisc: The Arabic Bloggers Ken, Media, Anti-Blogging and the World Cup
Blogging nightmare… Starting with hot news this week, it looks that the Egyptian blogsphere is going to have more hard time in the near future. Following Aljazeera's one hour TV...
Singapore: Online Auctions
Indi at indirani.net is asking the Singapore government to regulate how buyers and sellers behave on online auctions. “I am saying this because 99.9% Singaporeans tends to perfectly obey what...
