The Brasília Consensus: Looking for a Second Wind
By Lourdes Casanova and Julian Kassum
This article examines Brazil’s hybrid development model, which combines macroeconomic orthodoxy with certain features of state capitalism, as well...
Climate Change: Legal, Financial, Economic and Risk Management Issues
By Tapen Sinha
Human activities have accelerated the process of climate change. Since dealing with climate change requires collective action across countries and across...
The Hidden Advantage of Chinese Subsidies
By Usha C. V. Haley and George T. Haley
How did China move so swiftly in capital-intense industries without labour-cost or scale advantage from bit...
Toward a New Global Russia: Leaving the BRICS Behind
By Terence Tse, Mark Esposito, and Olaf Groth
While Russia’s growth in the early 2000s inspired confidence in its potential as a global economic powerhouse,...
Climate Change: What It Means for Us, Our Children, and Our Grandchildren
By J. F. C. DiMento, P. Doughman and S. Levesque
Most of us are familiar with the terms climate change and global warming, but not...
Shock from Graying: Are Grandparents Responsible for the Weakening of Monetary Policy Effectiveness?
By Patrick Imam
Patrick Imam explores how a population with an ageing demographic requires certain monetary policy in order to be effective in the post-crisis...
Luxury Brands Need to Chart a Course into New Frontier Markets
By Glyn Atwal and Douglas Bryson
The progressively unpredictable dynamics of the BRIC markets are now challenging luxury brands to rethink their global market strategies....
Internationalising Media Studies
By Daya Thussu
For hundreds of years the West has dominated the world of Media Studies, but Daya Thussu is about to prove to us...
Urban Development In India
By A. Panagariya, P. Chakraborty & M. Govinda Rao
Below, Arvind Panagariya, Pinaki Chakraborty and M. Govinda Rao give a detailed account of India’s vast...
Genetic Technology in the Global Economic Environment
By Richard C. Jennings
Below, Richard C. Jennings looks at the use of modern genetic technologies of plant breeding for increasing agricultural productivity. The author...
EDITOR'S PICK OF THE WEEK
China’s Challenging Search for a New Model of Economic Growth
By Danny Leipziger
China cannot continue to rely on exports to drive its growth, but what are the alternatives?
China ran a $1.2 trillion trade surplus last year, and despite admonitions from the IMF to rely...
