Big Oil's embrace of social media falls somewhere between a limp handshake and a bear hug. So I was intrigued by Shell's announcement that it will use Twitter to publish hurricane updates for the ...

Alexandra Twin has 15+ years of experience as an editor and writer, covering financial news for public and private companies. Eric's career includes extensive work in both public and corporate ...

Africa has been widely recognized as the poorest continent (World Bank, 1989, 2001, 2006; Mabogunje, 2004; Bigsten and Durevall, 2008; Ogbuji, 2009; Olaopa and Uzodike, 2009; Assefa, 2010). In 2005, ...

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The panel assembled and analyzed underlying data on research and development (R&D), science and technology (S&T), human capital, and innovation to determine the following: This appendix describes the ...