IFC: Why Corporate Governance Is Crucial to Myanmar’s Growing Private Sector
Emerging from decades of isolation, Myanmar is undergoing major reforms to become a more market-driven economy. Many are hoping for a meteoric rise of...
Brexit – Much Ado About Nothing?
After tearing the country and his party apart, leaving it with no government, no opposition, and – essentially – no future other than a...
Patrick Awuah: Educating the Future Leaders of Africa
The prestigious and pioneering Ashesi University in Ghana is on a mission to educate a new generation of business leaders. Built on a hilltop...
Asia Pacific: Economic Integration Gaining Ground
Some of the world’s most promising economic partnerships straddle the Asia-Pacific Region. That vast spread of economies offers a contrasting landscape of competitiveness. While...
Mhairi Black: The Baby of the House
In May 2015, newly elected Glasgow MP Mhairi Black travelled to London for only the second time in her life when she and 55...
Mohamed A El-Erian: Is the Perfect Storm Over for Markets?
Earlier this year, financial markets around the world were forced to navigate a perfect storm – a violent disruption fuelled by an unusual amalgamation...
Dalia Grybauskaitė: Marketing Coffee and a Country for Nearly 60 Years
Women political leaders who make it to the top are few and far between. Those that stay in power are even more of a...
Rich Man, Poor Man: A Clash Foretold
In November, a Chinese billionaire – one not yet clipped and cuffed at the order of President Xi Ping – acquired Amedeo Modigliani’s Reclining...
Europe: A Ship of Many Quarrelling States
For Europe, these are interesting times. At both geographic extremities of the continent, countries are dangling by a thread: the United Kingdom mulls a...
UNCTAD: A Policy Recipe to Get Investment Flowing Again
James Zhan suggests world leaders make a joint effort to harmonise and formulate appropriate investment policies to help build investment firepower to face 21st...