Transforming Government – Nine Critical Steps
By Andrew Kakabadse
The transformation of government can no longer rely on past century models of public administration. Effectively integrating structural alignment with the sensitivities...
Solving the Asset–Shortage Problem of Emerging Markets
By Patrick Imam
The growing appetite for emerging market financial assets (such as equity or bonds) by local and foreign investors has not been met...
Food Prices: Should Emerging Market Economies Be Concerned?
By Nicolás Depetris Chauvin
High food prices are here to stay. This should be a reason of great concern not only in less developed countries...
The Third Industrial Revolution: How the Internet, Green Electricity, and 3-D Printing are ...
By Jeremy Rifkin
Our industrial civilization is at a crossroads. Oil and the other fossil fuel energies that make up the industrial way of life...
GLOBAL TRENDS: Facing Up to a Changing World
By Adrian Done
How much time do you dedicate to thinking about the REALLY BIG issues that are likely to affect your personal and professional...
Conventional versus Islamic Private Equity
By Mohamed Ali Chatti and Ouidad Yousfi
There are some similarities between Islamic and conventional PE, like for example the active participation, the quick exit...
From A Niche Market To The Mainstream: What Has Driven Islamic Banking Growth?
By Patrick Imam and Kangni Kpodar
Despite the rapid growth in Islamic banking during the past decade, challenges remain, pointing to the need for further...
The Believers Are But A Single Brotherhood1: Political Islam In Post-Mubarak Egypt
By Joseph Yackley
The fall of Mubarak and the rise of political Islam illustrate the hidden power of social change. To understand how Egypt’s Islamists...
Changes at the top in Chinese Banking
By Violaine Cousin
At the end of October 2011, the heads of the three financial sector regulators were rotated. It is time to ask what...
The New Scramble for Africa
By Pádraig Carmody
Something has certainly changed in the intervening years in Africa, and in its relations with the outside world, even if excessive pessimism...
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...
