Marketing Life Insurance in China: How Cultural Taboo Matters
By Cheris Shun-ching Chan
How does a market for a new product emerge in the face of cultural barriers? Marketing life insurance in China has...
Sino-Russian relations: More rhetoric than substance?
By Robert Bedeski & Niklas Swanström
Despite some re-engagement between China and Russia since Putin’s initial embrace of the West, the positive rhetoric of today...
Basel I, II, III – We Want It All at Once
By Violaine Cousin
The complexity of Basel II and III has reached China. In a revolutionary turn within seven years, the Chinese bank regulator has...
Will China Inevitably Develop Powerful Global Brands? Three Possible Scenarios
By Howard Yu
Given China's rapid economic development, what sort of global impact will Chinese brands have? This article identifies three scenarios, depending mainly on...
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,...
The China Model: a Civilizational-State Perspective
By Zhang Weiwei
China’s dramatic rise should be understood in the context of China as a civilizational state, i.e. an amalgam of the world’s oldest...
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...
Winning the Talent War in Emerging Markets: Women are the Answer
By Sylvia Ann Hewlett and Ripa Rashid
As global companies try to harness the growth and possibilities of emerging markets, the extraordinary energy, ambition and...
Neoliberal Globalization, Masculinity and Gender Justice
By Raewyn Connell
A relatively new field of social research has documented the diversity of masculinities in the world. Globalization is not a separate issue...
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...
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...
