Opinion

Monday 14/March/2016 14:43 PM

When democracy fails the people

Nobel laureate Amartya Sen famously suggested that famines do not occur in democracies, because accountable governments will do everything they can to...

Sunday 13/March/2016 16:02 PM

A state-powered green revolution

Discussions about building a green future tend to focus on the need to improve the generation of energy from renewable sources. But that is just the first...

Sunday 13/March/2016 15:45 PM

Hawks see Obama's NATO pick as soft on Russia

At a crucial moment in the US relationship with Europe, President Barack Obama has chosen a No. 2 for NATO whom some Republican lawmakers see as the face of...

Sunday 13/March/2016 15:29 PM

Stop bashing Wall Street. Times have changed

There's a perverse competition among some US presidential candidates: Who can most loudly blame Wall Street for the problems of Main Street. They've...

Saturday 12/March/2016 20:10 PM

Need to bridge vacancy-skills gap in Oman

Despite the economic slowdown Oman is currently experiencing, the country still has the ability to create thousands of jobs per year but employers are faced...

Saturday 12/March/2016 15:42 PM

France’s citizenship test

Since last November’s brutal terrorist attacks in Paris, a furious debate has been raging in France over whether to revoke the citizenship of those...

Saturday 12/March/2016 15:26 PM

The end of globalisation?

China has just announced that last year, for the first time since it began opening up its economy to the world at the end of the 1970s, exports declined on...