UNCTAD: Africa Rising
Africa needs investment to advance sustainable development and see the continent prosper. James Zhan, Astrit Sulstarova and Mathabo le Roux argue that the nature...
Grant Thornton Hong Kong: Mergers and Acquisitions – Cultural Alignment for...
Too often companies put together look great on paper but are fraught with management and structural problems that end up turning deals into busts....
Clive Stafford Smith: A One-Man Army for Justice
Clive Stafford Smith is a British lawyer specialised in civil rights and fighting death penalty convictions. He has spent much of his working life...
Robert J Schiller: Fighting the Next Global Financial Crisis
What do people mean when they criticise generals for fighting the last war? It’s not that generals ever think they will face the same...
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...
Mohamed A El-Erian: The Great Policy Divergence
Over the next few weeks, the US Federal Reserve and the European Central Bank are likely to put in place notably different policies. The...
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...
IFC: Corporate Governance Practices in the European Union
For the first time, European Commission Directive 2006/46/EC required all listed companies to produce a corporate governance statement in their annual report to shareholders....
Carlos Rangel: On Savages, Revolutionaries, and Idiots
Driven by nostalgia for times that never were, victimised by foes that never existed, and waiting for an enlightened leader who never arrives: most...
Anders Åslund: The Submerging Market Threat
It is time to put the rise of the emerging economies in perspective. The rapid economic growth in much of the developing world since...
