Challenges Facing Global Financial Markets

The Challenges Facing International Financial Regulation

The financial crisis in the Fall of 1998 was the first post-World War II crisis in which events in emerging market economies seriously threatened the financial stability of the West, and where the origins of the crisis was clearly to be found in the workings of liberalised markets and private sector institutions. The spark was the financial crisis that overwhelmed many of the Asian economies in...

Challenges Facing Global Health Networks: The NCD Alliance Experience; Comment on “Four Challenges that Global Health Networks Face”

Successful prevention and control of the epidemic of noncommunicable diseases (NCDs) cannot be achieved by the health sector alone: a wide range of organisations from multiple sectors and across government must also be involved. This requires a new, inclusive approach to advocacy and to coordinating, convening and catalysing action across civil society, best achieved by a broad-based network. T...

The New Challenge for Global Financial Markets

Community Analysis of Global Financial Markets

Irena Vodenska 1,2,*, Alexander P. Becker 1, Di Zhou 1, Dror Y. Kenett 1, H. Eugene Stanley 1 and Shlomo Havlin 3 1 Center for Polymer Studies and Department of Physics, Boston University, 590 Commonwealth Avenue, Boston, MA 02215, USA; [email protected] (A.P.B.); [email protected] (D.Z.); [email protected] (D.Y.K.); [email protected] (H.E.S.) 2 Administrative Sciences Department, Metropolitan Colleg...

Global health challenges facing bureaucracy: democratization or revolution?

This yearmarked the 67thWorld Health Assembly, the annual meeting of the World Health Organization's (WHO) 194 member states. Between 19th and 24th May 2014, more than 3500 participants met at the Palais des Nations, Geneva, Switzerland to discuss and agree new WHO policies and its programme budget. Coincidentally, Public Health published a paper by Van de Pas and van Schaik calling for a democ...