How Will China Rebalance?
By Michael Pettis
China urgently needs to rebalance its economy, but how it chooses to do so should not be constrained by undue focus on...
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...
A Watershed in the Financing of Infrastructure for Water Security
By John Briscoe
Water is a basic necessity – crucial not only for sustaining life, but also for facilitating sustainable economic growth. Below, Professor John...
Shadow Bankers Fight a Losing Battle in China
By Joe Zhang
“If President Xi Jinping wants Chinese people to realise their own ‘China dream’, he must tame the credit monster. Shadow banking is...
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...
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...
The Constitution of Risk
By Adrian Vermeule
How should we approach legal decisions regarding private property for public use? How can constitutional risk be managed in order to...
The Rise of the Petroyuan and the Slow Erosion of Dollar Hegemony
By Flynt Leverett and Hillary Mann Leverett
For seventy years, one of the critical foundations of American power has been the dollar’s standing as the...
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...
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...
