Original article in the Hurriyet. You wrote an article to Guardian about recent strength of Turkish economy. After protests against some Government projects, Turkish stock exchange sharply declined. How do you see after-protests Turkish economics? The eruption of protests has definitely hurt, but so far not decisively. One sensitive indicator, the stock market, is down 16% from the [...]
The UN special advisor and director of a key science network tells SciDev.Net what the road to 2015 will look like. With less than 1,000 days until the UN’s Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) expire, efforts to design a new framework to replace them in September 2015 are gathering pace. What targets to include in these Sustainable Development [...]
NEW YORK – UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon is mobilizing global action around the great challenge of our time: sustainable development. It is a call that the world must heed. It is no longer good enough for economies simply to grow. We must also end extreme poverty, a goal within reach by 2030. We must manage [...]
Monday is the 50th anniversary of a hinge date of history. On June 10, 1963, President John F. Kennedy helped move the world away from the nuclear precipice toward survival. J.F.K.’s act of leadership on that day is one of the greatest in modern history. The Cold War is sometimes remembered as a stable “balance [...]
