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WEF: Mission Impossible Accomplished

Credit the World Economic Forum with saving South Africa from communism. Invited to attend the 1992 World Economic Forum, Nelson Mandela arrived in Davos armed...

The UN’s Principles for Sustainable Insurance (PSI): A Pioneering Global Framework...

Environmental, social, and governance (ESG) issues—also known as sustainability issues—are posing a shared risk to the insurance industry, business, government, and society at large,...

PwC: Oil & Gas in Africa – Planning a Response to...

Overall, activity in the oil and gas industry across the African continent has slowed in the wake of the declining prices in late 2014....

Latin America: Corruption – Disrupting Business as Usual

“I’m shocked, shocked to find that gambling is going on here,” says Captain Louis Renault of the Casablanca police upon entering Rick’s Bar. A...

SpaceX: Making a Splash in Privatised Space Exploration

The United States government is outsourcing its business in space at an astronomical rate. Contracts worth billions of dollars are being awarded to private...

UNCTAD Investment and Enterprise Division: Tax and Investment Policymaking: The Need...

The fiscal contribution of MNEs (multinational enterprises) has been at the centre of attention for some time. Numerous instances of well-known firms paying little...

Disruption in Politics: Be Careful What You Wish For

Political disruptors have, once again, become fashionable – and popular. They always do when societies grow tired of business as usual and politicians that...

Nouriel Roubini: 2008 Revisited?

The question I am asked most often nowadays is this: Are we back to 2008 and another global financial crisis and recession? My answer is...

Africa: Life After the Resources Super Cycle

If one region has dominated the discussions at the World Economic Forum, it has been Africa. That continent’s diversity, contrasting fortunes, unique challenges, and...

Alexander Karp: Somewhat Deviant

Ray Kroc, the man responsible for putting a McDonalds restaurant on almost every street corner in the world, once said that the two most...