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☆ Nobel Peace Prize could give a glimmer of hope amid era of conflict and climate crisis
▼ + stars: | 2023-10-04 | by ( Christian Edwards | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +7 min

CNN —The Nobel Peace Prize will be awarded in Norway on Friday, as Russia’s brutal invasion of Ukraine rages on and other flashpoints threaten to ignite across the globe. But the peace prize can serve as a beacon of hope in fraught and fractured times. “I think it’s precisely in a situation like this that the peace prize becomes particularly important. But Nobel specialists have been quick to dismiss such speculation, saying it is rare for the peace award to go to a wartime leader. “It would be like saying in 1941 that (then-British Prime Minister) Winston Churchill should get the Nobel Peace Prize.

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☆ Ukraine-Russia war sees U.S. mull Patriot missile defense battery for Kyiv. It's not enough.
▼ + stars: | 2022-12-15 | by ( Pavel K. Baev | Pavel K. Baev Is A Research Professor At The Peace Research Institute Oslo | Prio | ) www.nbcnews.com time to read: +8 min

The feeble Russian response to Ukraine’s recent drone attacks suggests the West has room to maneuver. The drone attacks also point to how the West can do more to turn the tide of war in Ukraine’s favor. But the Patriot deployment would take months even in the best circumstances, and the war gives no respite. And the feeble Russian response to Ukraine’s recent drone attacks suggests the West has room to maneuver. A U.S. Army Patriot Missile System operates at a joint exercise with NATO allied and partner forces, in Zadar, Croatia, on May 17, 2021.

☆ Banca Mondială “măsoară” efectele crizei asupra economiei Republicii Moldova
▼ + stars: | 2020-12-29 | by ( ) capital.market.md time to read: +7 min

Dimpotrivă, acesta a scăzut nemilos, silind importurile să se reducă, acelaşi fenomen înregistrat în afara ţării determinând şi reducerea exporturilor. Autorii prognozelor fac trimitere la anul 2009, luându-l drept element de comparaţie, fapt ce ne obligă să vedem totuşi ce a fost în acel an 2009. Analizele economice de la acea vreme constatau că “criza economică mondială a lovit dur economia R. Moldova în anul 2009, arătând vulnerabilitatea ţării faţă de şocurile economice externe. La rândul său, PIB-ul a scăzut cu 6,0 la sută în termeni reali. Inflaţia anuală de 0,4 la sută din anul 2009 a fost determinată în mare parte de contractarea drastică a activităţii economice şi de reducerea puterii de cumpărare a populaţiei”.

Persons: inflaţia, investiţiile, Constantin Olteanu Organizations: Mondiale, Banca Naţională, CC, Euro, Banca Mondială Locations: Moldova, SUA

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