In these exclusive interviews we speak to Prof. Jacques Attali and Dr. Tilman Ehrbeck (CEO of the World Bank’s Consultative Group to Assist the Poor ‐ CGAP). We discuss the state of financial inclusion globally and look deeper into how microfinance, technology and other instruments are working to eradicate poverty and bring opportunity to billions worldwide.
Francois Hollande’s 75 percent tax rate proposal for those with annual income of more than EUR 1 million is both totally impractical and extremely useful.
The French have a special relationship with cinema, which they invented: they see a lot of theatrical releases (over 200 million visitors in 2011); they produce a very great number of them (over 200 in 2011); they export them; they come from everywhere to shoot in France; and it is in France that the world’s largest film festival is held, which is also the world’s number one market.
So, now is the time of the main French political choice.
While European political circles continue to fight over an increasingly vanishing power, in the face of increasingly powerful markets, the only EU institution that can still influence reality, the Central Bank, is not under the control of any democratic institutions, for lack of a federal government of the eurozone.
La France est, en ce début de décennie, largement considérée comme une grande puissance militaire. Elle en est toujours une, à maints égards : au-delà de sa force nucléaire et de son statut de membre permanent au Conseil de sécurité de l’ONU, elle dispose de la deuxième zone maritime au monde et d’une capacité de projection militaire mondiale.
Germany appears, in Europe, to be taking power, and no one can blame her for it: she does what must be done, in her own interest. This week, this is confirmed by four pieces of information…
The conference starts at 7:30pm on the topic: “micro-credit in the global crisis”.
