Mortgage Lending Solutions for Troubled Markets
By Anna DeSimone
Creation of wealth began with farmers who planted something into the land and earned income from harvesting food. Others created wealth from...
Can Financial Innovations Mitigate Civil and Ethnic Conflict?
By Saumitra Jha
The failure to align the incentives of self-interested groups in favor of beneficial reform is often considered a major cause of civil...
Oil For Food: Big Business in The Middle East
By Eckart Woertz
Middle Eastern countries are highly dependent on food imports. They have reacted to the global food crisis of 2008 with various measures...
Sistema, Power Networks and Informal Governance in Putin’s Russia
By Alena Ledeneva
In her new monograph Can Russia Modernise? Sistema, Power Networks and Informal Governance, Alena Ledeneva seeks to decode and reveal how informal...
Macro-Prudential Supervision in Europe’s Banking Union
By Dirk Schoenmaker
Eurozone banking union discussions are full of questions about the scope of Eurozone micro-prudential bank supervision. Yet, this article argues that there...
Transport And The Environment in Asian Megacities
By Shinya Hanaoka
This article has addressed two environmental problems whose origins lie in the transport sector: local air pollution and CO2 emissions. Globally, the...
The Oreo Story: How Kraft Turned America’s Favorite Cookie into a Chinese Classic
By Michael J. Silverstein, Abheek Singhi, Carol Liao & David Michael
When Irene Rosenfeld became CEO of Kraft Foods in June 2006, she became the...
Global Tourism and Travel Industry: Performance During the Double-Dip Recession and Recommendations for Transition...
By Maharaj Vijay Reddy
This review article outlines the impressive growth of the global tourism and travel industry during the on-going economic slowdown. It briefly...
Innovation in Canadian Natural Resource Industries: A System-Based Analysis of Performance, Policy and Emerging...
By Andrew Sharpe
Innovation is an important driver of productivity growth, which in turn is a major source of improvement in living standards. Given the...
A Story About Inspiring A Local Community To Become Entrepreneurial Using Lessons Learnt From...
By Yiannis Kanellopoulos
IT management consulting is usually perceived as a technical endeavour in which consultants focus on bits and pieces. However, it primarily has...
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...
