From Deep Globalisation to the Risk of Deglobalisation: the Rise of Local-Contentism
By Marcos Troyjo
As the world transitions from ‘Deep Globalisation to Deglobalisation’, economic policies based on a ‘Doctrine of Local Content’ take center stage. As...
Frontier Markets: Old Acquaintances, New Opportunities
By Tomás Guerrero
The emergence of frontier markets is consolidating South-South relations and speeding up the global economic rebalance. Below, Tomás Guerrero describes how, to...
The Impact of Law and Corruption on Venture Capital and Private Equity Fees and...
By Douglas Cumming, Grant Fleming, Sofia Johan & Dorra Najar
This article summarises recent research on the role of law, culture and corruption on venture...
The Future of Boards: Meeting the Governance Challenges of the 21st Century
By Jay W. Lorsch
Predicting the challenges boards will face in the years ahead requires an understanding of how they and the governance they have...
Youth Unemployment after the Financial Crisis: ‘Quo Vadimus’?
By Terence Tse, Mark Esposito, & Jorgo Chatzimarkakis
The financial crisis has damaged national economies but also hurt segments of societies, including youths aged 15...
The ICBC Path to Chinese Governance: Lessons for the Western and Emerging Markets
By Didier Cossin & Abraham Lu
Since its dual IPOs in 2007, the Industrial and Commercial Bank of China Limited (ICBC), one of the largest...
The Social Theory of Contemporary Capitalism
By Partha Chatterjee
The sociology of capitalism developed by Max Weber and its critique developed by Marxists are unable to account for the transformed structure...
Smaller Cities Embrace Smart Specialisation – The Exeter Success Story
By Richard Ball
Governments have recognised that cities are engines of growth critical to economic performance and national recovery in the current climate. The large...
Environmental Governance for Sustainable Development: An East Asian Perspective
By Akihisa Mori
Despite democratisation and foreign assistance, many East Asian nations are stuck in the mud in terms of developing domestic environmental governance. Their...
Eastern and Western Ideas for African Growth: Diversity and Complementarity in Development Aid
By Izumi Ohno & Kenichi Ohno
The West and the East approach economic development differently. The Europeans and Americans stress free and fair business climate,...
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...
