Transport And The Environment in Asian Megacities

By Shinya Hanaoka This article has addressed two environmental problems whose origins lie in the transport sector: local air pollution and CO2 emissions. Globally, the...

How Rapidly Should Africa Go Green? The Tension Between Natural Abundance And Economic Scarcity.

By Paul Collier & Anthony J. Venables Africa is the green continent: its CO2 emissions per person are less than one tonne pa, one-fifteenth of...

China’s Global Tectonic Shifts: The Dawn of a New Era

By Jean-Pierre Lehmann China has new political leadership. The newness of the new era, however, is by no means limited to the new leadership. The...

The Educated Middle Class, their Economic Prospects, and the Arab Spring

By Filipe R. Campante & Davin Chor The recent uprisings in the Arab World carry a broader lesson, highlighting the importance of sustaining an economy...

Fiscal Child Abuse American Style

By Laurence Kotlikoff & Scott Burns President Kennedy said, “Our problems are man-made.  Therefore, they may be solved by man.” Looking at America’s current horrendous...

Why Transfer Pricing is Key to Decision Making and Strategic Reviews

By Les Secular This article looks at how Transfer Pricing can impact the bottom line on financial statements, particularly in the current global economic climate,...

Sino-Russian relations: More rhetoric than substance?

By Robert Bedeski & Niklas Swanström Despite some re-engagement between China and Russia since Putin’s initial embrace of the West, the positive rhetoric of today...

Google versus the Law

By Tatiana-Eleni Synodinou Google’s legal adventures in Europe are constantly demonstrating that Google is pushing the boundaries of European information law to their outer limits....

How the United States Can Improve Energy and Climate Policies

By Daniel C. Esty & Steve Charnovitz Energy policy needs to be part of a multi-prong, market-oriented competitiveness strategy. Proper price signals could internalize of...

Twitter, the ‘Snoopers Charter’ and Online Privacy

By Paul Reilly Has the Internet, and micro-blogging site Twitter in particular, killed privacy? Well, not quite. In June 2011, Eric Schmidt used his keynote speech...

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CFO's new mandate. CFO explaining the presentation

The Performance and Transformation Orchestrator: The CFO’s New Mandate in the Age of AI

By Terence Tse CFOs are evolving into AI-driven transformation orchestrators, balancing finance, technology, and strategy while upskilling teams, managing risks, and driving measurable business value. A key insight from this year’s AI for CFOs event, organized...

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