There is no doubt that funding could not totally tackle all the problems of countries in our contemporary society. Simply relying on financing to improve the economy and living conditions of citizens is far from the ideal outcome.

Initially, the fund itself is not strong enough for countries to rely on. Since there are many aspects of countries which are demanding the fund, sometimes inefficient allocation will contribute to more serious deficiency. In this way, the fund provided by the Arc and social enterprise may help the United Nations make a better allocation decision even if it is fully funded. 

In addition, it is of no exaggeration to say that what the United Nations needs is not only the fund. Power of people is also indispensable compared to the funding policy. The exchange of knowledge and the concern about the whole society are essential to improve the development of the United Nations. 

Among economic debates, population economics is always neglected by economists in that they consider it unlikely to peak anytime soon. However, there is high probability that population will proliferate in the future. As is mentioned in the article, the author approves the opinion that rich countries should absorb more immigrants to help improve economy condition. 

It is a common phenomenon in the globe that countries whose populations increase rapidly have lower living standards and worse environmental and economic conditions, while countries with low speed of population increase are more likely to be richer. In this case, the author considers the solution that developed countries absorb immigrants from developing countries. 

From my perspective, this action helps relieve the burden of developing countries and improve the aging problem in developed countries. It is beneficial to balance the population and improve economy in the globe. 

However, I would suggest consider the negative side of absorbing immigrants. Initially, it is known to all that there are huge cultural differences between countries. If new immigrants would be able to adjust to a new environment along with diversified backgrounds is an essential concern. Besides, solutions should be found regarding to our own country first instead of searching for solutions in other countries. For instance, since there is the problem of overpopulation, countries should make attempts to promotes subsidies to encourage more births, which is much better than absorbing immigrants from other countries, bringing chances of the happening of chaos. 

The Economist Espresso, a new app created by The Economist, has won global attention recently. The app delivers daily news to smartphones every morning rather than weekly and this helps people gain news and knowledge more frequently at small amount instead of receiving a large amount once a week, which helps people absorb news more comprehensively. Some people may doubt that whether it would be complicated because people will spend much more time on reading it.

As is mentioned in the article, the app emphasizes the brevity, clarity and wit of the quick knowledge package. The news is classified into three editions according to their regions—Americas, Europe and Asia. In this way, it is convent for people to loop up regional news more quickly.

Since The Economist has a long history and has won great reputation regarding to the professionality and authority, the app is sure to become popular among subscribers. In addition, the app provides subscribers with a one-month free usage, which will offer better experiences to them before they officially subscribe to it. Besides, the monthly fee is low, easing the economic burden of subscribers. 

Many people doubt that whether they should be overconfident or not and most of them believe that they should be regarding to the heated competition among our contemporary society. David DiSalvo’s blog comprehensively analyzes overconfidence and approves it from different aspects. 

The word, overconfidence, may represent an irritating and infuriating figure for many people. People who are overconfident are usually regarded to be arrogant and others may dislike them because them often ignore others. However, as is stated by David DiSalvo, overconfidence is beneficial to people to some extent. 

I cannot agree more with the opinion that overconfidence is much better than self-basement, even though sometimes overconfidence becomes self-deception. Overconfidence helps improve people’s inner ability, such as creating and nurturing, which is essential for the status of people while working or studying. People with overconfidence have stronger capacity to be more in control and powerful to bear rudeness. They can focus on themselves, regardless of external disturbance. Believing that they are the best provides motivation to pursue the target with high efficiency. Eventually, they can convince the world of their ability and schievements. 

Nevertheless, heathy confidence is the best choice when it is packaged with great personality. There is no doubt that people should be humble. However, overconfidence is also indispensable. A combination of these two attitudes is more beneficial for people to perform in their daily life, especially for business people when they promote and advertise their products. 

With the development of modern technology, there is also an innovation in the car industry. After the appearance of Tesla electric cars, there is more competition between electric cars and gasoline cars. Weitao Zhao’s blog analyzes the features of electric cars and gasoline cars.

In light of future utility of energy resources, it is undoubted that electric cars will be in the ascendant due to the merit of sustainability. Besides, the expense of electricity is much lower than that of gasoline. In this case, electricity will be more popular in aspects of environmental protection and expense. 

However, the sales of gasoline cars are still overwhelming in the market. Since the technology of applying electricity into cars is not quite mature, many people have not realized the advantage of electric cars over gasoline cars. In this way, the car industry should innovate their technology and promotes the new concept of the utility of electricity regarding to the environment protection issue. 

Nowadays, the road traffic conditions in cities become worse with an increasing number of cars bought. It always take people plenty of time to find a parking lot among restricted supplies. Under this circumstance, a new app helping people find a parking lot has been created. However, many people doubt the ethics of making money by using the app, which is illustrated in Faria Sedighi’s blog.

Faria Sedighi disagrees with the idea to make money out of public resources by claiming that it violates business ethics. From my point of view, the app should be promoted if it really relieves the pressure of drivers to park their cars. Drivers can easily solve the problem of parking by just waiting for several minutes on the app. As is mentioned in the article, Faria Sedighi considers that not everyone will use the app, which will cause the insufficiency of data and resources. In my opinion, the problem is not critical because the app can be easily promoted if it is efficient. 

However, regarding to the safety of using the app while driving and the problem of business ethics, these two aspects cannot be ignored. It can be imagined that when a driver uses the app, attention will be distracted, which can cause fatal safety issues. Besides, it is not ethical to earn money by using public property and it may also cause worse traffic conditions if there is a mistake in the database. 

Many aspects of aboriginal life are controlled by the federal government. The government tried to assimilate First Nations by automatically depriving people who earned a university degree of their Indian status. However, it resulted in children forgetting their aboriginal culture, which is claimed as “killing the Indian in the child”. “The government, and formerly the Crown, had a fiduciary obligation to protect aboriginal interests and the lands reserved for their use during the process of colonization,” said anthropologist Pierre Trudel, an expert on aboriginal issues. 

From another perspective, First Nations have fought for their powers in managing reserve lands, resources and the environment for a long time. They signed treaties to govern themselves but did not give up protections for them from paternalism, such as tax exemptions. 

As Vancouver Premier Christy Clark claimed, a Supreme Court of Canada decision recognizing aboriginal title represents a new fork in road between the sophisticated relationship between the government and First Nations. Cooperation and negotiation is appealed instead of conflict and discrimination. The historic meeting between the B.C. cabinet and aboriginal leaders discussing future relations represents an opportunity for First Nations of BC and the government get a new relationship regarding not only to the political aspect of the country, but also to the economic prosperity and developments. 

The conditions of economy are often estimated by the unemployment rate in the job market. However, it is now doubted by many economists whether it could actually reflect the amount of slake in the economy. 

Gauging the level of slake in the economy is very essential. First of all, the Federal Reserve supplies financial stimulus to the lagging economy. Besides, businesses, governments, employers and investors need to make strategies to adjust the economy. What’s more, Congress will set insurances and create more job opportunities. 

In this way, it is of great significance to estimate the economy more accurately. The involuntary part-time workers and those who give up looking for work make the estimated economy conditions inaccurate if the evaluation only lies in jobless rate. In addition, it is found that unemployment rate will drop with the growth of wage. 

Overall, while estimating the economy, more special factors should be considered instead of just counting on the jobless rate. For instance, specify every part of the labor force and think about those who may be outside the labor force system. 

Facebook announced its deal of WhatsApp, the Internet messaging service, for $19 billion, which is approved by Europe’s competition authorities.

Some people doubt that if the deal would make the association of Facebook and WhatsApp a monopoly among the messaging and voice businesses. The expenditure of using WhatsApp is very cheap. Besides, people fear that the combination of the data from Facebook Messenger and WhatsApp will enlarge the number of consumers, thus leading to the monopolistic status of WhatsApp. 

However, it is claimed that the deal will not bound competitions in the dynamic and growing market in that there are still a wide range of communications apps for consumers to choose from. Moreover, Facebook Messenger and WhatsApp are not close competitors. 

In this way, the deal could provide users of Facebook with more convenience in chatting. It will encourage people to use the app more often and improve the influence of Facebook among the social network apps. The profit the deal earns may contribute to further development of more advanced technology. 

Recently, Canada’s prairie province of Saskatchewan has captured worldwide attention because of its new carbon-capture facilities.

The technology lies in capturing carbon dioxide from coal-fired power stations and it is the first time for it to be applied at a commercial scale.

Obviously, environmentally-friendly facilities are of great benefit. Reduction of carbon dioxide will improve air quality, creating a good environment and living conditions for humans. In this way, they are so welcome in the globe that people all advocate widespread use of them. However, the cost behind it is so high that it cannot be ignored.  According to the data, the facility needs C$1.4 billion to operate without getting much actual financial return. The cost is now burdened by taxpayers, the federal government and the provincial authorities. Although the backers of the project is looking for more investors, it can be predicted that the project will be at risk in the future because investment is much more than return. 

Since capital becomes a barrier, people should think of other ways to coordinate. For instance, can carbon-capture facilities be developed which cost less? Can high-tech equipment be invented which produces less emission of carbon dioxide? Besides, we can advocate more people to participate, devoting their own strength to handle the problem. I believe the facilities will not cause much diseconomy in the near future.