Sustainability: Getting Down to Business

Interview with Nikos Avlonas As the Millennium Development Goals near their 2015 deadline, the role that the private sector must play in driving a global...

Is Effective Waste Collection the key to a Circular Economy?

By Jonas Törnblom As urbanisation intensifies and sustainability climbs higher up the global agenda, new solutions to old challenges are more important than ever. Waste...

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,...

EU Post-Crisis Resilience and Fragility: Collateral Damage or Global Recovery

By Irene Finel-Honigman There is a perception of steady economic recovery across the post-sovereign debt crisis within the European Union (EU) and the Eurozone....

The National Origins of Policy Ideas

By John L. Campbell and Ove K. Pedersen  In this article John Campbell and Ove Pedersen argue that the way policy ideas are generated by...

Perceptionomics – How to Solve the Eurozone Crisis

By Terence Tse and Mark Esposito The “north vs. south” mentality of the Eurozone is not helping anyone, least of all the European Union...

The European Union Policies in the Aftermath of The Global Economic Crisis

By Laura N Haar The global economic crisis has forced national and regional policy makers to reconsider their policy priorities in order to speed up...

Building Ethical Business Cultures: BRIC by BRIC

By Alexandre Ardichvili, Douglas Jondle, Jack Wiley, Edgard Cornacchione, Jessica Li & Thomas Thakadipuram As the economies of Brazil, Russia, India, and China (BRICs) continue...

A View on Russian Economy Mid-term Perspectives

By Sergey Drobyshevsky There are a lot of arguments illustrating the low probability of fast and stable growth of the Russian economy in mid-term perspective....

Lonely Ideas

By Loren Graham Russian technology has had a historically uneven trajectory. In recent times Russia has fallen back on natural resources for economic strength, but...

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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...

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