Leverage For Good: The New World of Social-Purpose Finance
By Lester M. Salamon
A revolution is underway on the frontiers of philanthropy. New charitable models hold the promise of leveraging for social and environmental...
Making Sustainable Attainable
By Ian Brooks
From its early beginnings as a financially risky and purely philanthropic venture, Sustainable Investing has evolved into not only a viable but...
How Finance is Shaping the Economies of China, Japan, and Korea
By Yung Chul Park, Hugh Patrick, and Larry Meissner
In what ways, and to what degree, has the financial system mattered, and what roles has...
Can Financial Innovations Mitigate Civil and Ethnic Conflict?
By Saumitra Jha
The failure to align the incentives of self-interested groups in favor of beneficial reform is often considered a major cause of civil...
Financial Transformation to Sustain the Arab Firestorm
By Nasser Saidi
The Arab world needs to undertake major structural transformations if it is to effectively address the challenges laid bare by the Arab...
From A Niche Market To The Mainstream: What Has Driven Islamic Banking Growth?
By Patrick Imam and Kangni Kpodar
Despite the rapid growth in Islamic banking during the past decade, challenges remain, pointing to the need for further...
Changes at the top in Chinese Banking
By Violaine Cousin
At the end of October 2011, the heads of the three financial sector regulators were rotated. It is time to ask what...
Putting Mind into Markets
By David Tuckett
The 2008 financial crisis showed that human emotion has a critical impact on financial markets. The newly established discipline of 'emotional finance',...
Too systemic to fail: Consequences, causes, and potential remedies
By Raghuram Rajan
Perhaps the single biggest distortion to the free enterprise system is when a number of private institutions are deemed by political and...
Islamic Finance: Is the Time Ripe for a Private Sector Trade Association?
By Robert B Gray
The growing significance of Islamic finance has brought into sharp focus the similarities and the potential for convergence with respect...
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...
