More than 450 economists from over 40 countries are calling for legislation on agricultural commodity speculation, which is driving up food prices and fuelling hunger. With around 1 billion people enduring chronic hunger worldwide, economists believe excessive financial speculation is contributing to increasing volatility and record food prices, further exacerbating global hunger and poverty driving global hunger figures to their highest on record. In a signed letter to G20 finance ministers, economists are calling for urgent action to curb excessive speculation and its effects on global food prices. The economists are demanding greater control over financial gambling by speculators by ensuring that strict rules are put in place to limit the hold of bankers over the world’s food markets. The US has led the way in seeking to control speculation and European proposals for similar rules are expected to be announced next week. However, lobbying from the finance sector is delaying political action and the UK government are set to block European legislation. Economists from top universities including Cambridge, Oxford, Cornell, Berkeley, Vienna and the London School of Economics have signed the letter, adding their voices to an escalating international campaign. The United Nations, the Pope, French President Nicolas Sarkozy and Starbucks CEO Howard Schultz are among those who have already spoken out in favour of curbing speculation.
En el marco de las actividades que realiza la Escuela de Gobierno y Gestión Pública, se llevó a cabo la conferencia magistral "Los Usos del Poder: México hoy y en el 2012 " impartida por el Maestro Alfonso Zárete Flores.
Realizada en el Auditorio Arq. Luis Ramón Barreda Cedillo del Complejo Administrativo de Gobierno del Estado de Colima el 3 de Agosto del 2011.
Breve biografía: Licenciado en Derecho por la UNAM y Maestro en Sociología Política por The London School of Economics and Political Science de la Universidad de Londres. Fue Director General de Información y Análisis en la Presidencia de la República, Asesor del Secretario de Relaciones Exteriores y del Subsecretario de Gobernación, así como Director de Información para la Evaluación de la Presidencia de la República. También ha sido Director de Estudios Políticos del Centro de Investigación y Docencia Económicas (CIDE), profesor y conferencista en algunas de las más importantes instituciones de educación de México y del extranjero.
By Graeme Paton6:45AM GMT 02 Mar 2011 The London School of Economics (LSE) confirmed plans last night to set aside the sum, equivalent to the cash it had received from the family of Col Gaddafi, to establish a scholarship fund.
Officials hope the move will draw a line under criticism of the universityâs Libyan ties.
It came as an MP called on the Government to strengthen its scrutiny of donations made to education institutions.
Robert Halfon, Conservative MP for Harlow, said various universities had accepted âmillions of pounds
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Top business journalists, economists, academics and politicians from Europe and the US joined each other in Brussels for two days in November 2009 to discuss the role of the media in the global financial crisis. The 'Covering the Crisis' conference was organized by the European Journalism Centre, EJC.
For more on the conference: http://www.coveringthecrisis.eu
Speaking, among others, were Asgeir Jonsson, Chief Economist at Kaupthing Bank in Iceland; Former Danish Prime Minister Poul Nyrup Rasmussen, who now leads the European socialists; Former BBC News Online reporter Steve Schifferes, Professor in Financial Journalism at London City University; Damian Tambini, Senior Lecturer at the London School of Economics; New York-based media critic Daniel Schechter; Dean Starkman, editor of 'the audit' blog for the Columbia Journalism Review; Wolfgang Munchau of the Financial Times; and representatives for news organizations such as Bloomberg News, The Deal, Barron's, BBC News, BreakingViews.com, the Economist ... Distributed by Tubemogul.
Ian Angell, docente presso la London School of Economics, illustra il lato oscuro della tecnologia; come gestire la complessità e l’importanza della figura del thinking manager. I software di profiling e la questione dell’immagazzinamento dei dati.
Ian Angell, professor at the London School of Economics, illustrates the dark side of technology, how to manage complexity and the importance of the thinking manager. Profiling softwares and the problem of data storage.
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Professor David Held of the London School of Economics talks about his book, 'Global Covenant: The Social Democratic Alternative to the Washington Consensus'.