World Bank Group: Development Finance Frontline – Strategic Investment Funds
This is the first of a series of occasional interviews with senior strategic investment fund (SIF) professionals. Tasked with attracting private investors to priority...
Commodity prices likely to rise further in 2018: World Bank
Oil prices to average $56 a barrel in 2018, up from 2017 average of $53/bbl
Oil prices are forecast to rise to $56 a barrel...
AI: here to improve customer service, honest…
CUSTOMER service has evolved to allow automated systems to assist with traditional human interactions — and AI may hold the key to best-in-class service.
AI...
Etihad Swoop For Tony Douglas As New CEO
Former military defence expert is to take up the role in January, but can he stop the rot in Abu Dhabi where the airline...
Airbus strikes a deal with Bombardier
Just as the Canadian firm looked like it was being grounded by massive US tariffs, a European saviour with a long-term plan comes to...
4 ways business is stepping up to meet global climate goals
Non-state actors like businesses are essential to meeting the ambitious goals outlined in the Paris Agreement. A panel discussion at the recent ECOCITY World...
Israel ice cream row heats up
ICE CREAM maker Ben & Jerry's is to end sales in the West Bank and East Jerusalem.
The firm intends to construct a different distribution...
Vulnerability: the heartbeat of creativity and innovation
By CHRIS PATON
THE NUMBER of UK businesses forced to close in the last quarter was 137,210 — 23 percent up on the same period...
The tides they are a-changing
EVER since the Romans constructed sophisticated tide mills across the high maritime ranges of a conquered Britain, the modern world has been trying to...
Great apes benefit from guerrilla tactics from online community
REDDIT’s at it again. Fresh from boosting the share price of game retailer GameStop, the WallStreetBets community has gone wild, “adopting” 3,500 wild gorillas...





































