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Do you want an exotic sports car? Think it will make you happy? Maybe. Maybe not. A former sports car owner remarked, "The two best days in my life were when I bought my Alfa Romeo and when I sold my Alfa Romeo." This man is not the only person to have wanted a certain dream car, obtained it, and found out that it was the car from hell. There may be something positive in every negative event but there is usually something negative in every positive event. Best-selling author Richard Bach wrote, "Our disasters have been some of the best things that ever happened to us. And what we swore was blessings have been some of the worst." As Bach implies, the negative in a positive event often turns out to be big enough to make the positive event something that you would rather not have happened to you.

Emerging Markets Are Still the Future

Emerging markets

O desenvolvimento das economias emergentes - HojeMacau

HOJE MACAU

“Emerging markets are the financial markets of economies that are in the growth stage of their development cycle and have low to middle per capita incomes. Emerging markets possess a greater upside in the long term because of their strong economic growth. Specifically, they offer the best opportunity for higher returns and diversification. Emerging economies account for about two thirds of the world’s land mass-that’s a large part of the world that you can’t afford to miss out on!”

The Little Book of Emerging Markets: How To Make Money in the World's Fastest Growing Markets

Mark Mobius,

O desenvolvimento económico podia situar-se nos grandes mercados da Europa e América do Norte, mas nas últimas décadas surgiram atractivos emergentes na Ásia e América do Sul. As primeiras mudanças no poder económico global, uma mega tendência com efeitos directos no centro dos negócios começaram a dar-se. Mas enquanto as empresas se encontram a trabalhar para captar novos consumidores das regiões emergentes, as mudanças tecnológicas podem ser consideradas como outra mega tendência, que atinge todos os mercados e estão a transformar o consumo, numa experiência muito mais complexa, que exige novas respostas.

Europe’s politics of dystopia

“The European Union (EU) is going through hard times. Some would even go so far as to claim that it is in the midst of a serious survival crisis. There has also been growing apprehension regarding whether the euro itself, and the EMU of which it is the jewel in the crown, can survive. Moreover, many people and governments, especially in Germany, the Netherlands and the UK, are unhappy with the increasing number of immigrant workers coming to them from the new Member States.”

The European Union Illuminated: Its Nature, Importance and Future

Ali El-Agraa

A Itália, ao contrário de outros países europeus estava dividida em inúmeros Estados independentes. A marcha da História foi no sentido da unificação. Qual teria sido o poder de negociação da República de Veneza contra as potências que representavam nessa altura a França e a Grã-Bretanha? O mundo, presentemente, reduziu-se ainda mais, e põe directamente em relação económica, e concorrência social, grandes países, livres na sua política, e Estados médios, condicionados na sua.

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Protecting Human Rights while countering terrorism

UN action on human rights

 Early on, the UN established a Commission on Human Rights initially composed of nine core individual members. These individuals proposed that Commission members should act as independent experts rather than present the views of their governments. The governments themselves rejected this proposal. The UN member states decided that the Commission should comprise governmental representatives from 18 elected UN member states. This membership of government representatives was expanded to 32 in 1967, and later to 53 members. In 2006, the Commission was abolished and replaced with a 47-member Human Rights Council.