Ten years ago, the Asian stock exchange crisis came as a healthy shock which taught both the stock exchanges of the famous Asian tigers as well as Western stock exchanges a great deal.What has changed and how is Asian finance structured today? That is the theme of this issue’s Dossier, co-ordinated by Stefano Chiarlone with contributions by Giovanni Adornino, Giovanni Ferri, Marco Lossani and Michael Plummer. And, in the background, the scenario of the new global balance, which economist Mario Deaglio comments on in a wide-ranging interview in the context of the 2007 report by the Luigi Einaudi Centre for Documentation and Research, titled Astride the Tiger. Europe, its present and future is the theme for the discussion among Ulrich Beck, Aldo Bonomi and Massimo Cacciari. Author of Cosmopolitan Europe, published in Italy by Carrocci, Beck is one of the leading contemporary social scientists and offers very interesting ideas for an extraordinary reflection on European culture. More specifically, but in the same framework, is the parallel interview of two Romanian intellectuals, Cristian Tudor Popescu and Mircea Cartarescu. Interviewed by Claudia Stanila, the two intellectuals reason in critical and self-critical terms on the events that have led Italy and Romania to the brink of a genuine institutional crisis. Finally, Matteo Ferrazzi and Andrea Orame offer an extremely interesting analysis of the changes underway in the European automobile industry, while Anna Czaijka, Aesthetics and Philosophy lecturer and the author of very high-profile essays, attempts to explain the reason why, after their revolt against Communism, the Polish people have found themselves voting overwhelmingly for the Kaczynski brothers.
Linda Laura Sabbadini, ISTAT’s Central Director, has followed the whole process of gender policies and attempts to quantify women’s progress in statistical terms. “The great turnaround”, she says, “began in Beijing in 1995. That was the conference that determined the two watchwords that would dominate policies associated with this issue in subsequent years: mainstreaming and empowerment”.
he hierarchies of the economy are changing rapidly. Having envisaged a “soft” globalization led by the United States, we find ourselves faced with various groupings of the continental kind.
The Americans have built an anti-intruder wall equipped with the best technology on the market on the border along the Rio Grande to face up to illegal immigration from Mexico.
n idea of the European Union, EWCs – European Works Councils –are an innovation that may well upset traditional forms of representation and the established routine of industrial relations.
Planning, marketing and customised communications strategies for NGOs to increase fund raising and guarantee transparency. The International Accountability Charter meets the demands of donors for better tracking of donated funds.
Researchers are in agreement: unless women contribute more to wealth production the world’s economic growth will be insufficient. Another thing: in countries where women are more active in the workforce the problems of population are also being solved.
