Asia is turning from
a ‘global factory’ into a colossal consumer of goods and services, and this
could lead to radical changes in the world economy, Junior Research Fellow in
the Centre for Comprehensive European and International Studies (CCEIS),
Anastasia Likhacheva, said in the paper ‘A New Model of Development in the
Asian Region: Continent of Consumption’ presented at HSE’s XVI April International
Academic Conference.
Migrant
workers in the CIS are vulnerable in terms of pension rights. The recipient country
does not expect to care for them in old age, while the country of origin does
not count the years worked abroad towards their retirement plan. Portable pensions
may offer a solution, according to researchers of the HSE's Laboratory for
Comparative Social Research (St. Petersburg) involved in the study Pension Mobility within the Eurasian
Economic Union and the CIS
States are forming alliances to stand against the dictates of international capital and also to successfully attract this capital to their markets, argues the head of HSE’s Department of International Affairs, Maxim Bratersky, in his report “Political Functions of Regional Trade Agreements.”
The ability to provide enough food for yourself, and have a surfeit to sell for export, is becoming a way for states to influence world politics and the economy, says Alina Savelyeva, assistant to the Dean at the HSE Faculty of World Economy and International Affairs. In the lecture she delivered at the HSE’s XV April International Conference 'The role of food potential in modern international politics', Savelyeva considers the mechanisms of how food can be a weapon
The 50-year anniversary of the march on Washington was celebrated recently in the US, but the famous ‘dream’ of its inspirer, Martin Luther King, is still a dream: over recent decades, the level of economic and social inequality between whites and African Americans has grown
The national debt of the world’s countries is continuing to grow, and, according to the latest estimates, countries are having an increasingly difficult time stabilizing that debt, let alone decreasing it. A recent report by the World Organization of Creditors states that preliminary results for 2012 show the total indebtedness of all countries has exceeded $55 trillion