Articles tagged with: democracy
Economic Impact »
Well its not just the chief exec of Japan Airlines and the Jamaican PM that are in salary sacrifice mode – the Chinese government has directed executives of state-owned banks and insurers to re-think their pay packets. A government directive said that individual financial enterprises paid top execs too much and even though Chinese executives are paid at modest rates vis a vis Western standards – their pay packets are far larger than ordinary workers.
The directives are siginficant because they highlight the concerns held for the inequality between the …
Global politics »
One of the issues that has interested me for some time has been how countries forge their cultural identity and develop a sense of common glue that binds them together with the same values and interests. It is something that for centuries people have fought and believed in. In Britain and the empire, the fighting was for ‘King and Country’ – in the US, it was perhaps for ‘liberty, democracy and the capitalist spirit?’ But today, as the mix of tourists, immigrants and business folk increase, what makes the British, …
