Fareed Zakaria

China's grand canal plan

globalpublicsquare.blogs.cnn.com — By Global Public Square staff We know that China does infrastructure better than anyone in the world. Their trains, their roads, their airports, their subways have been built at amazing speed on a grand scale and with great foresight. Well, the next great Chinese infrastructure project is a canal.

The Obamas’ Africa Opportunity

csis.org — President Barack Obama's trip to Africa this month is focused on the pressing issues of economic growth and investment, democratization, and the next generation of African leaders. Yet a central element for achieving those goals is missing from the list-advancing the health and empowerment of women and girls.

What Sweden Can Tell Us About Obamacare

nytimes.com — LAST month, for the 37th time, the House of Representatives voted to repeal Obamacare, with many Republicans saying that its call for greater government involvement in the health care system spells doom. Yet most other industrial countries have health care systems with far more government involvement than we are ever likely to see under Obamacare.

Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development

oecd.org — 17/06/2013 - The number of people over 80 will double by 2050 rising from 3.9% of the population to 9.1% in 2050 across OECD countries and from 4.7% to 11.3% across 27 EU members. Estimates are that up to half of them will need help to cope with their daily needs.

America’s rock ’n’ roll economics

seattletimes.com — Originally published Sunday, June 16, 2013 at 5:05 PM The rock world is simply a more extreme version of the larger American experience, writes E.J. Dionne Jr. We live in a superstar economy. To paraphrase Bruce Springsteen, we are not taking care of our own.

Singapore's Health Care Lessons for the U.S.

brookings.edu — Most people will agree that the U.S. health care system needs systematic restructuring. Americans pay more for their health care then residents of other high income countries but get worse health outcomes.

Obama's risky Syria move

globalpublicsquare.blogs.cnn.com — "Fareed Zakaria GPS," Sundays at 10 a.m. and 1 p.m. ET on CNN By Fareed Zakaria So, the Obama administration has now decided that Syria's use of chemical weapons crosses a red line and, as a result, the United States will supply the opposition will small arms and ammunition.

Why Turkey protests are a good thing

globalpublicsquare.blogs.cnn.com — By Fareed Zakaria "Another year, another country, another square," wrote the British columnist Timothy Garton Ash in the Globe and Mail this week. He was referring, of course, to the protests in Istanbul's Taksim Square, which many have compared to earlier protests in Cairo's Tahrir Square...

India to become world's most populous nation around 2028: UN

timesofindia.indiatimes.com — The UN report says India is expected to become the world's most populous country, passing China around 2028, when both countries will have populations of 1.45 billion. UNITED NATIONS: India will surpass China to become world's most populous nation around 2028, with its population crossing the 1.45 billion mark, according to latest report by the United Nations.