Tag: Harvard University

• Tuesday, October 15th 2019 - 09:50 UTC

  Nobel Economics Prize for work in fighting global poverty by three US-based economists

  

  US-based economists Abhijit Banerjee, Esther Duflo from MIT, and Michael Kremer. Harvard University, won the 2019 Nobel Economics Prize on Monday for work in fighting global poverty that has helped millions of children by favoring practical steps over theory.

• Friday, May 31st 2019 - 09:30 UTC

  Merkel at Harvard deplores attacks on climate change, free trade, condemns walls and lies

  

  German Chancellor Angela Merkel on Thursday urged the world to do “everything humanly possible” to combat climate change and pledged to do her part. “Climate change poses a threat to our planet's natural resources,” Merkel said in her commencement address delivered at Harvard University in the United States. “It and the resulting crises are caused by humans.”

• Wednesday, December 12th 2018 - 14:59 UTC

  Study reveals that 8 million Venezuelans would migrate during 2019

  

  A study carried out by Harvard University economists Dany Bahar and Douglas Barrios reveals that at least 8.2 million Venezuelan citizens would leave during 2019 their country to escape the economic and political crisis that Venezuela is experiencing.

• Wednesday, October 10th 2012 - 20:53 UTC

  Cristina, get serious

  

  By Jorge Araya - The Argentine president’s misguided perspective threatens her country.
  (The following piece was published in the Harvard Crimson from Harvard University. It is considered the US oldest continuously published daily college newspaper, was founded in 1873 and incorporated in 1967).

• Wednesday, October 10th 2012 - 01:14 UTC

  US universities top world ranking; Asia surging strongly but Latam disastrous

  

  Untied States universities dominate the Times Higher Education global rankings for 2012-13, occupying seven of the top 10 spots, but Asian institutions are on the rise while only four Latin American figure among the best 400.

• Monday, October 1st 2012 - 08:43 UTC

  Former minister says Cristina Fernandez in Harvard showed how she really is

  

  Former Economy Minister Domingo Cavallo assured that Argentina’s current problems are much more serious, than back in 2001 since nowadays “people are desperate because they want to preserve the value of their savings and the Government does not allow them to do so”.

• Friday, September 28th 2012 - 06:19 UTC

  CFK to Harvard students: there is no ‘dollar clamp’; don’t repeat monochord questions

  

  President Cristina Fernandez speaking at Harvard University denied there was a “dollar clamp”, chided some students for making the same “monochord questions” as the Argentine media, attacked the IMF and finally described a question on her wish for re-re-election as ‘abstract’ since it does not depend from her or a single party.