EBRD Expansion to Tunisia Brings New Focus on Private Sector

Source: Tunisia Live

With its sights set on Tunisia and other countries in the southern and eastern Mediterranean (SEMED), the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) declared at a recent summit in London that it is bre ...
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DGBAS lowers growth forecast to 3.03%

Source: China Post

The Directorate-General of Budget, Accounting, and Statistics (DGBAS) yesterday downgraded the expected economic growth rate for 2012 from 3.38 percent to 3.03 percent and the inflation rate from 1.94 percent to 1.8 ...
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Egypt Election: No Clear Winner

Source: PRI's The World

The results are not official yet. But the presidential race in Egypt seems to be coming into focus. Egyptian voters this week seem to have narrowed down a field of 13 candidates to 2. The men will go head-to-head in a run-off eleciton in mid-June. One o ...
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Building A Retirement Portfolio In A Tumultuous Time

Source: Seeking Alpha

While equity markets enjoyed a strong start to 2012, there have been significant signs of fatigue as investors and traders focus on the risks to the market. Markets are well off their May peak. The market has serious headw ...
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Keeping the memory alive

Source: Payson Roundup

Andrew Rivas celebrates Memorial Day in a special way. He remembers his brother, Raymond, with a long-distance memorial ride. His brother died in 2009 from a wound he suffered while serving with the U.S. Army in the M ...
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Laureate International Universities brings the World Innovation Forum to the campuses and classrooms of its global network of universities

Source: Street Insider

BALTIMORE, May 25, 2012 /PRNewswire/ --Â Students and faculty from 23 Laureate network institutions in eight countries had a front-row seat to this year's World Innovation Forum, which wrapped up yesterday ...
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US soldier convicted of Texas bomb plot

Source: China Post

SAN ANTONIO -- A jury on Thursday convicted a U.S. soldier of attempting to build a bomb and use it to blow up a restaurant near the Fort Hood Army post in Texas to get revenge for the suffering of fellow Muslims in the Middle East ...
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For Egypt's Brotherhood, Governing Will Be A Different Task

Source: U.S. News & World Report

Protesters chant slogans at a rally in Tahrir Square in Cairo Egypt. With the Muslim Brotherhood poised to gain control over Egypt's parliament and presidency, experts are quick to note governing is much harder than political rabble r ...
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A Guided Tour of Catastrophe

Source: Wall Street Journal

By Michael C. Moynihan The pop environmentalist polemic follows a rigid formula. From its best-selling beginnings, with angry screeds like Rachel Carson's "Silent Spring" (1962) and Paul Ehrlich's "The Population Bomb" (1968), the ...
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