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More reactors and smaller, life “after 60” and the change in security protocols after Fukushima. Increasing the dynamism of economies and the need to reduce the emission of carbon dioxide are two determining factors for ...
The world’s first nuclear power plant turns 65 The first nuclear plant that produced electricity, the Russian Obninsk, turns 65 today. It was connected to the power grid in 1954, and with its scarcely 5 megawatts ...
Chernobyl returned to the newspapers from the hand of the cinema. Reality and dramatization The Chernobyl miniseries unleashed a cataract of newspaper articles and a renewed interest in the accident. The director Craig Mazin says that his message ...
The Arctic route: the great Russian bet. Botan new icebreaker powered by nuclear energy First was the Suez Canal, then the Panama Canal and now, a new promise for international trade: the Arctic route. Formally called ...
Latin America’s two largest economies are now governed by populists. Both Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) and Jair Bolsonaro are political renegades, promising to up-end the political status quo after a period of unprecedented corruption ...
When I started studying Latin American companies 20 years ago, Embraer was one of the first case studies I published. The company was an example of what business schools’ faculty would call “reverse outsourcing.” While ...
Sometimes we lose perspective. Over the past quarter-century the world has changed more than it did during thousands of years of human existence. Just a few of these changes serve to make the point. In ...
Latin America may have more to gain than lose in a U.S.-China trade dispute, so long as it does not spiral into a global recession, provoking trade war. China and the U.S. are both the ...
A new trade agreement with the U.S. and the launch of BIVA bring good news for the business community. The summer was not a good one for much of Latin America, with continuingcrises in Argentina, ...
It’s the company that creates perfect employees, not the government. For decades, Latin American managers have complained about the gap between their companies’ needs and the training provided by universities and vocational colleges. For decades, ...
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