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...
Navigating the maze of red tape
Legislation and bureaucracy have been sticking in the gizzard of commerce for decades. With one piece of frustrating paperwork after another getting in the...
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....
Of Two Minds in the Public Eye: Charlotte Church
At age of eleven, Welsh schoolgirl Charlotte Church’s fabulous voice and classical song repertoire catapulted her onto the global stage and into the headlines....
Out with the Old: Pope Francis
At an age when most people would gratefully embrace retirement, Jorge Mario Bergoglio became the CEO of a high-profile global organisation facing major challenges....
Paul Collier: Studying the Causes and Effects of Mass Migration
Sir Paul Collier CBE (Commander of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire) specialises in the political, economic, and developmental plight of countries...
Margaret Hodge: The Scourge of Tax Dodgers
The pinnacle of Margaret Hodge’s four decades in public life has arguably been the five years spent as the very high profile scourge of...
Europe: Bewildered and a Little Bewitched
Much of the focus of this winter’s World Economic Forum will fall upon Europe. For it is here where commentators expect the issues that...
The Local Climate Adaptive Living Facility (LoCAL) of UNCDF: Climate Change...
“For women, the road was crucial. It was hard to deliver babies because of access: we had to go to the hospital by boat...