99 to 1: How Wealth Inequality Is Wrecking the World and What We...
By Chuck Collins
At the root of social movements around the world is the emergence, in the last three decades, of extreme inequalities of income,...
Does China Want to Buy Up Europe? Europe’s Crisis and China’s Reluctant Rise
By Roland Benedikter and Jae-Seung Lee
In the occasion of Germany’s Angela Merkel’s visit to China on 3rd February 2012, Chinese premier Wen Jiabao stated...
Italy: A Consumer Story
By Emanuela Scarpellini
Can we go on consuming as we do today, perhaps even more so? Would it not be better to devise a consumer...
Shaping Global Political Realities: The Workings of Transnational Elite Networks
By Ian N. Richardson, Andrew P. Kakabadse & Nada K. Kakabadse
Over the past two decades, there has been a dramatic change in the way...
Transforming Government – Nine Critical Steps
By Andrew Kakabadse
The transformation of government can no longer rely on past century models of public administration. Effectively integrating structural alignment with the sensitivities...
Solving the Asset–Shortage Problem of Emerging Markets
By Patrick Imam
The growing appetite for emerging market financial assets (such as equity or bonds) by local and foreign investors has not been met...
Conventional versus Islamic Private Equity
By Mohamed Ali Chatti and Ouidad Yousfi
There are some similarities between Islamic and conventional PE, like for example the active participation, the quick exit...
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...
An Inquiry into Why America Spends While the World Saves
By Sheldon Garon
Recently the issue of saving has become maybe too exciting. Despite a booming economy, household saving rates sank to near-zero levels by...
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...
