Putting Research into Use (RIU): Technology Development for the Poor Farmer in Low Income...
By Norman Clark
The Research Into Use programme aims to help agricultural research projects put its existing stock of knowledge into practical use rather than...
Canadian Foreign Aid Enters the Twenty-First Century
By Stephen Brown
For over 60 years, Western countries have continuously adjusted their foreign aid programs, often responding to changes in the international context (such...
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...
The Impact of Hedge Fund Regulation: An International Perspective
By Douglas Cumming, Na Dai & Sofia Johan
The success of a hedge fund relies on more than just internal structure and governance. The jurisdiction...
Fair Lending Compliance for Mortgage Lenders – An International Concern
By Anna DeSimone
Both the U.S. and the European Union are addressing the problems believed to have created the financial crisis by heightening consumer protection...
Confronting the New Reality: Globalisation, the Global Financial Crisis and the State
By John Farrar &David Mayes
Globalisation and the Global Financial Crisis (GFC) have presented major challenges to orthodoxy. John Farrar and David Mayes discuss the...
Trade Imbalances and the Global Financial Crisis
By Michael Pettis
The source of the global crisis through which we are living can be found in the great trade and capital flow imbalances...
Governance of International Banking: The Financial Trilemma
By Dirk Schoenmaker
International banking is at the cross-roads. Are we heading for the decentralised banking model, by which banks are split in national subsidiaries...
How the Great Moderation Became a (Contained) Depression and What to Do About It
By Barry Z. Cynamon, Steven M. Fazzari & Mark Setterfield
The Great Recession was deep and the subsequent recovery has been slower than most economists...
A Tale of Two Games: Global Strategies of Multinational Companies in China’s E-commerce Market
By Xin Wang & Justin Ren
Why has there been hardly any successful entry into China’s e-commerce market by western firms? From consumer-to-consumer markets to...
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...
