Putin’s Russia: An Exemplary Case of Hyper-Extractive State
By Alexander Etkind
Due to Russia’s geographic scale and military might, it amplifies typical problems of many petrostates from Venezuela to Nigeria to Iran....
Natural Disasters, Bank Damages, and Firm Activities
By Kaoru Hosono and Daisuke Miyakawa Below Kaoru Hosono and Daisuke Miyakawa examine the impacts of financial shocks arising from two earthquakes in
How Asia Works: Finance – The Merits of A Short Leash
By Joe Studwell
Deregulating finance for short-term gains may work in developed Western economies, and even then only at times, but premature deregulation has wreaked...
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,...
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...
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...
TPP and Global Governance
By Junji Nakagawa
The Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) currently under negotiation in the Asia Pacific region may drastically change the structure and function of the governance...
A System Perspective on India’s Healthcare Industry
By Lawton Robert Burns
As one of the recently industrialized nations, India has a fast-growing economy as well as an ever-expanding, ever-urbanized population, however its...
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...
