A famous claim in economics is that the cost of services (such as health care and education) tends to increase relative to the cost of goods (such as food, oil, and machinery)...

The European Union’s 27 member states each have their own form of democracy, shaped by their own history and culture...

South Asia is riddled with multiple antagonisms and mutual suspicions. India mistrusts Pakistan, and vice versa. Afghanistan and Pakistan are at loggerheads...

This past week the focus was on the budget speech and the measures announced by the government. As usual we had both sides of the same coin being discussed, and the viewers making a somewhat difficult decision...

On a national level, the government budget has the all important task of redistributing resources as well as creating and setting a set of incentives that are deemed necessary to stimulate economic growth and ensure social justice...

I find it hard to keep up with George Vella’s various changes of tune. The man who would be our foreign minister in a little over a year probably can’t keep up himself...

Europe’s deepening debt crisis is echoed in the United States by the inability of President Barack Obama and Congress to strike a bipartisan deficit deal....

A series of developments over the last few weeks have set in motion a downward spiral for the eurozone. Unless officials – especially German officials – act fast, the verdict of financial markets is bound to be ruthless....

When US Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton visits Myanmar this week, she’ll see a country that has made some progress toward democracy...

Last Wednesday, Prime Minister Lawrence Gonzi had a sterling opportunity to ‘redeem’ himself politically and reassert himself as the natural choice to run the country...