A Ground-Breaking Railway: Is the Jakarta-Bandung High-Speed Railway a Game-Changer for Indonesia?
By Xiangming Chen, Michael Hutahaean, and Irvin Nathaniel Tobing
With less than 25 countries owning high-speed rail services in the world, the development of the...
Deepening Economic Crisis in Advanced Capitalism
By Dr. Kalim Siddiqui
In spite of the fundamental role that it has played in world history from the colonial period onwards, Kalim Siddiqui argues...
The Future Role of the World Bank: Some Views on Strategy and Plumbing
By Danny Leipziger
It is more than 75 years since the World Bank was founded at Bretton Woods. Clearly, today's world is a different place,...
Neocolonialism: An Analysis of International Factors on the Development of the Global South
By Kalim Siddiqui
Can former colonies truly get out from under the grip of developed countries? How has the economic, technological, and military advantage of...
Climate-Induced Terrorism — the New Global Business Risk
By Matt Ince
While countries around the world struggle to meet the manifold challenges posed by climate change, there are those who would use the...
Embracing Sustainability: Greening the Supply Chain in the United States
By Jerry Haar
The drive towards green supply chain management in the US is halfway towards achieving success. Industry leaders have made sustainability a priority,...
The Valuation of Nature after the Pandemic Seeing More Than Instrumental and Intrinsic Values
By Johanna Zoe Hartmann & Michael Palocz-Andresen
The valuation of nature has relied broadly on instrumental and intrinsic values that form a dichotomy, an approach...
Racial Inequalities and the COVID-19 Pandemic
By Graziella Bertocchi and Arcangelo Dimico
Since the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic, evidence has been accumulating about its disproportionate impact on racial and ethnic...
Championing Free Speech in the Social Media Capital of the World
By Michael Henry Yusingco
Social media-savvy Filipinos will be a huge factor in the 2022 elections. Despite the threat of online disinformation, political activism in social...
Privacy After COVID
By James A. Lewis
The COVID pandemic highlighted privacy. Lockdowns and restrictions on in-person meetings made digital networks an essential tool. This reliance on digital...
EDITOR'S PICK OF THE WEEK
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...
