The New Competition: Brands from Emerging Markets

By Jan-Benedict E.M. Steenkamp In an article adapted from Brand Breakout: How Emerging Market Brands Will Go Global, Jan-Benedict E.M. Steenkamp argues that emerging market...

Africa’s Green Revolution? Raising Awareness of New Rice Crops for Africa (NERICAs)

By Aliou Diagne, Steven Glover, Ben Groom and Jonathan Phillips A Green Revolution in West African agriculture will rely on new technologies such as NERICA...

Inequality Trends and Their Determinants: Latin America over the Period 1990–2010

By Giovanni Andrea Cornia For at least the last quarter of the twentieth century, Latin America has suffered from low growth, rising inequality, and frequent...

A Review of Abenomics: The Bold Plan to End Deflationary Recession in Japan

By Mitsuru Misawa In order to catalyse economic activity and pull Japan from its two-decade period of deflationary recession, new Prime Minister Shinzo Abe has...

Health and Sustainability in the Canadian Food System: advocacy and opportunity for civil...

By Rod MacRae, Elisabeth Abergel and Mustafa Koc Traditional approaches to food and agriculture policy making in Canada are in question, with the realization that...

Leading through Engagement: Creating Foundations for the Africa of Tomorrow, Today.

By Sean Culey Africa is at a tipping point.  It is poised for growth, but the question is whether this growth will be based on...

Ten Trends Shaping the International Economy

By Adrián Blanco and Tomás Guerrero Below, Adrián Blanco and Tomás Guerrero discuss ten economic trends shaping the global economy, including factors such as a...

InnovaBRICS & Beyond: An Interview with Marcos Troyjo

Marcos Troyjo is Co-Director of the BRICLab at Columbia University, a special forum on Brazil, Russia, India and China at Columbia's School of International...

The Year of Iran: Tehran’s Challenge to American Hegemony in 2014

By Flynt Leverett and Hillary Mann Leverett In 1979, Iran shocked the world—and directly confronted America’s hegemonic ambitions in the Middle East—by charting its own...

Writing Theory from the South: The Global Order from an African Perspective

By Jean Comaroff & John L. Comaroff Western thought has, from the first, regarded the non-West as a place of antiquarian traditions and unprocessed data....

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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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