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Georgina Clarke Pride month is the celebration of those who are part of the LGBTQIA+ community. During this time, people come together to show how far gay rights have come and what work must continue to be done to result in full equality globally. ..
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Research* amongst attendees at the 2008 Institute for Turnaround national conference has yielded three overwhelming conclusions:
* 83% said businesses were poorly equipped to deal with the economic downturn
* 95% said that we have not yet seen the bottom of the downturn
* The turnaround community's advice to the government is: simplify taxation,...
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For two months now, the Olympic Park has been living with its sand sculptures. Despite the rain and the odd storm, they are still standing. But they are only made of sand.
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This paper complements the parallel paper by Ramos and Kahla on the policy and business implications of climate change for Africa. This paper outlines, in language understandable to a lay reader, the background to and mechanisms related to Clean Development Mechanism (CDM). TCDM is the major international initiative to provide incentives to private...
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The IOC completed yesterday its week-long review of the Beijing 2008 Games to ensure that London and other Games Organising Committees benefit from the lessons learned in Beijing. The IOC Official Debriefing of the Beijing 2008 Games examined all planning and operational aspects of the Beijing Games to highlight best practices, as well as the challenges...
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A year ago, the prospects for Emerging Economies (EE) looked very promising. There were concerns about the effect of a shallow recession in the US, but the general perception was that Asia and, to a large extent, Latin America and other regions were doing well. Most thought they had ‘decoupled’ from the advanced economies, and the emerging...
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Asian investment and economic engagement in Africa is a prominent feature of this decade. This newly prominent engagement raises many issues for the emerging and frontier economies of Africa. What are the dimensions of this engagement? Do Asian partners offer anything different from Africa’s traditional partners? China is the most prominent of...
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The financial crisis that has swept through the global economy since the middle of 2007 has led to a sharp deceleration in economic growth in the emerging and frontier market economies in Africa. The record growth performance of gross domestic product of about 6 percent per annum that Africa had experienced during 2002–07 has been seriously interrupted....
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It is now clear that the global economy is facing the worst economic and financial crisis since the Second World War. The crisis manifested itself initially in the subprime mortgage market in the US, but quickly spread to Europe; in the breakdown in the market for credit default swaps—a huge, unregulated and thoroughly opaque market; and in the...
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The Executive Board (EB) of the International Olympic Committee (IOC) today approved several new events for the 2012 London Olympic Games. All of the new events had been requested by the relevant International Federations as part of the IOC's systematic review of the sports programme.
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London 2012 sprint star Anyika Onuora became unwittingly embroiled in a major athletics controversy at the European Championships in Helsinki.
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Motivational speaker and one of the UKs best loved athletes Kriss Akabusi took part in Celebrity Come Dine with Me.
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Vassos Alexander, TV pundit and awards host, is the new sports reporter on the Chris Evans Breakfast Show on BBC Radio 2.