The Trump-Slump and What’s Next
By Graham Vanbergen
The global slowdown is on; the who-blinks-first trade war is taking its toll leading to investment anxiety and a slowly crumbling global...
Trump’s Other Wall
By Jack Rasmus
Trump brags about the ‘wall of money’ now flowing into the US from abroad–from Europe, Asia, emerging market economies–as the global economy...
Tamago-ya – The Bento King of Tokyo
By Seungjin Whang
Tamago-ya (meaning “Egg-shop”) was founded by Isatsugu Sugahara in 1975, as a small mom-and-pop bento (“boxed lunch”) shop. Under the entrepreneurial leadership...
AIMing for Success: The Strengths of the UK’s Junior Market
By Sam Pearse and Ashmi Bhagani
Designed primarily for the equity securities of small and medium-sized growth companies that either cannot, or do not want...
Japan Inc. will defy its critics and innovate once more
By Gianfranco Casati
Japan's corporate leaders face a big challenge in fulfilling the nation's ambitious plan to create what the government calls Society 5.0, a...
MENA’s Growing Young Population is a Huge Opportunity – If We Get It Right
By Geert Cappelaere
Youth as tomorrow’s builders are the most important segment of the population and they pose a great potential to expand a country’s...
Carrefour’s History and Exit from China
By Lisa Qixun Siebers
Carrefour is a French retailer with a successful history of being China’s largest and fastest growing foreign retail stores in 1995....
Blockchain, Poverty and Time Travel to 2030
By Namira Samir
We all know the story. Government made a forecast of its expenditures and revenues in every fiscal year; Government disbursed the funds,...
Creating an Enabling Environment for Renewable Energy in Resource-Rich MENA Countries
By Rahmat Poudineh, Anupama Sen, and Dr. Bassam Fattouh
In this article, we argue that investment in renewable energy sources is a no-regret strategy for...
The Political Economy of Inequality and the Issue of ‘Catching-up’
By Kalim Siddiqui
Why do some countries grow faster than others?
In this article the author discusses issues related to the economic growth and the ‘catching-up’...
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...
