International – Page 74 – Schirach Report

Prime Minister Monti Upbeat About Italy – Yet His Economic Reform Agenda Will Clash With Lack of Labor Mobility – Worse Yet, Italy Has Third World Scores On Corruption and Bad Governance

By Paolo von Schirach Related story: https://schirachreport.com/index.php/2011/12/06/italy-and-greece-have-a-bad-transparency-international-score-on-corruption-matched-by-bad-doing-business-grades-poor-public-finances-go-together-with-bad-governance-corruption-and-weak-economi/ January 1, 2011 WASHINGTON – Italian Prime Minister Mario Monti sounded optimistic...

A US College Educated Salesperson Does Not Know Elementary School Math – Not An Isolated Case, Scores Of Statistics Point To Scary Gaps In Math And Science – Americans Can Do Better

By Paolo von Schirach December 27, 2011 WASHINGTON – While shopping in a specialty store in Washington...

Africa Is Slowly Changing – Tribal Kings In Zambia May Have to Go But "Mwami" will be missed

WASHINGTON – He was just another participant in the Livingstone Workshop aimed at discussing foreign investment issues with many...

Massive Anti-Government Moscow Rally – Intense Public Anger – Gorbachev Advises Putin To Retire From Politics

WASHINGTON – The IHT reports that Aleksey Navalny, a blogger who is a recognized leader of the protest movement...

Development Work Is About Economic Growth Not About “Poverty Alleviation” – Part 2

WASHINGTON – International development practitioners focus more on ways in which they can eliminate or alleviate poverty, the visible...

To Cut Down Air Pollution China Will Switch To Natural Gas For Power Generation – Right Now Good Business For Exporters, But China Will Soon Develop Large Domestic Shale Gas Deposits

By Paolo von Schirach December 21, 2011 WASHINGTON – Qatar may not be too pleased that the...

Italy’s Debt Is Also About Patronage, Wasted Funds, Corruption And Low Ethical Standards – 952 National Italian Law Makers Collect Huge Salaries, Do Little – Can Monti Reform This?

By Paolo von Schirach December 20, 2011 WASHINGTON – Italy’s fiscal and debt crisis is not just about bad...

India Will Not Liberalise Retailing – Country Will Keep Ancient Food Distribution System – Failure To Carry Out This and Other Needed Reforms May Doom Growth

By Paolo von Schirach Related piece: https://schirachreport.com/index.php/2011/12/03/not-so-modern-india-country-choked-by-political-gridlock-corruption-and-vast-inefficiencies-very-low-132-world-bank-doing-business-score-opposition-to-recent-decision-to-let-in-internatio/ December 19, 2011 WASHINGTON – In a previous piece, (see link above),...

Italy and Greece Have A Bad Transparency International Score On Corruption, Matched By Bad “Doing Business” Grades – Poor Public Finances Go Together With Bad Governance, Corruption And Weak Economies

By Paolo von Schirach December 6, 2011 WASHINGTON – Bloomberg recently reported that Italy and Greece have...

TransCanada Keystone Pipeline Project Killed By Obama – Decision Taken To Please Environmentalists Hurts US Energy Security – Getting More Oil From Friendly Canada Would Be Smart Policy

By Paolo von Schirach Related story: https://schirachreport.com/index.php/2011/10/14/keystone-xl-oil-pipeline-from-canada-to-texas-will-not-be-built-obama-afraid-to-antagonize-environmentalists-too-bad-for-us-energy-security/ November 12, 2011 WASHINGTON – Well, apparently there are ”good”...