The Challenges and Importance of Institutions Building in the Developing Countries
By Dr. Kalim Siddiqui
There has been on-going debate about the utility of the ‘free market’ system versus ‘government intervention’ in promoting development policies and...
Patent Incentives in China A Changing Focus
By Tim Jackson
Like many countries China provides support for its innovative sector. As part of the wider ‘Made in China 2025’ policy to move...
Soft, Hard, or no Brexit: The Damage is Done
By Niccolò Pisani and Omar Toulan
Regardless of the final Brexit outcome, the damage to the UK has been done. In this paper, we look at five...
Chile: The Capitalist Alternative to Venezuela in Latin America
By Rainer Zitelmann
Chile and Venezuela are the two counter-models in Latin America. Chile embodies the capitalist path, while Venezuela the socialist path. But Chile has...
The Economic Performance of Modi’s Government in India: The Politics of the Hindu Right
By Kalim Siddiqui
In this article, the author examines the economic performance of Modi’s government, which came to power in 2014, and also analyses the politics...
China-US Trade War: Hiatus or Busted Deal?
By Jack Rasmus
This past week the US and China failed to reach agreement on a new trade deal, despite high-level China representative Lie He meeting...
Toward Japan’s Economic End-Game
By Dan Steinbock
As the spotlight has been on Japan's new Emperor Naruhito, the economy is coping with half a decade of Abenomics, monetary injections, huge...
The Philippines Emerges as New Bitcoin Hub
Major Philippines bank Union Bank launches cash-crypto ATM https://t.co/cH35aYPKlh
— Cointelegraph (@Cointelegraph) 11 February 2019
Bitcoin has been welcomed as a completely new concept in financial transactions...
Probing the Minds of Elected Women Representatives on Village Councils in India
By Samir Sathe
The psychological construct of the Elected Women Representatives (EWRs) is a significantly relevant and yet surprisingly ignored subject in India. This article...
From Cool Britannia to Fool Britannia
By Graham Vanbergen
It took just twenty years to go from the euphoria of Cool Britannia to Fool Britannia in the guise of the economy...
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...
