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This article is based on a Nobel Prize winning economist Robert Mundell talking about how a single world currency is not likely to happen or be adopted by the world. He stated that in order for this to potentially happen, the US dollar and the Euro would have to merge and create a "eurodollar", as they are the "two most important currencies" in the world.

As unemployment has risen throughout the world, governments have become more focused on protecting their own industries.

unemployment is a significant problem in the world and all governments try to protect their own market.

The World Trade Organization (WTO) is an international body whose purpose is to promote free trade by persuading countries to abolish import tariffs and other barriers. As such, it has become closely associated with globalisation.

This is an article about how there is more FDI going towards Nigeria and other parts of Africa. This will help the African nations if the politics around the investment are controlled. Usually there will be a increase in the wealthier population and an increase in the poorer population without much growth to the middle class

This article is about Iraq reserving around 143 billion barrels of oil and I believe that this article is very relevant to the topic scarcity as oil is a scarce resource in this world and yet people use them without caution. Soon enough, all the oil will be gone for people to use and we will have to use an alternative source, something renewable to provide energy for ourselves.

Oil in my opinion is one of the best examples for scarcity and in the article you chose it clearly explains it. We all hope that in a near future all of the alternatives are in use instead of the little bit of oil that's missing.

I agree with you guys. Oil is a great example for scarcity. If it did not, people would not make war in order to get that. Thousands of innocent people would not die. I hope in the future there will be some altarnetive sources in order to stop these stupid wars.

Japan, as we know, was devastated by the earthquake last year. This article is just thanking the world for all the aid. This article indirectly shows that the right sort of aid to a country with a stable political sector will ultimately help the country. 

Poverty and hunger are problems that many Americans relegate to the Third World. But the steady growth of poverty has left millions of American families afraid they won't have enough money to put food on the table.

This article is based on the scarcity of the food. The article gives data about the poverty rates of the world. The article judges that who should be responsible for the poverty.

we should all be responsible as the resources is limited and it's close to impossible to full fill everybody's needs and wants.

Seeing people death because of the starvation make me really upset. But I am afraid, it does not make many people in the world. If it made, something would change. I agree with you Tiffany, we should be all responsible about that. But the countries which exploited the country of that poor people should be more responsible and should not act nothing happened. They cannot ignore the situation.

the health spending in US is very high. Even when we compared it to France's. It is also known as the country who spends more on health care than any other country in the world. As they have as well count in per capital terms.

Sierra Leone is one of the poorest countries in the world. It has a life expectancy of 40 years, half that of many of the developed countries.

World leaders have warned of a new wave of protectionism, hampering international trade and destroying jobs.

This article analyzes the increasing level of poverty in Nigeria despite recent economic growth.

The article is about the Euro crisis. Britain does not support the economic plan of EU to protect Euro.

The article is discussing the effect on recent in events in Egypt on their exchange rate. The exchange rate has devalued drastically in the last year and economists say that a further devaluation will almost be inevitable, as it is likely to cause a very bad inflation as well as further social unrest. The reason for the devaluation in the currency is reduced demand for the currency, for example there are much fewer tourists in Egypt now that have been before.

The article discusses the effects of the decrease in value of Iran's currency, which is predicted to devalue even more with the economic sanctions.

the article is related with the report of government related with Japan population.