The Trump-Ryan Healthcare Act: Some Economic Consequences
By Jack Rasmus
While Republicans on the Right and the Far Right wrangle over whether to repeal the Obamacare Affordable Care Act (ACA), or just...
Le Pen-ization of France Europe’s Changing Landscape
By Dan Steinbock
In France, President Hollande’s utter failure to foster broad consensus for structural reforms has paved the way...
Trump – The Enigma
By Peter Koenig
In this article, Peter Koenig discusses a few of the bountiful contradictions and controversies of the new Trump Administration. The Donald, less...
United You Don’t Stand
From the Editors
The latest news about Israel is again about some on-going land grab. This is not new news. This has been going on...
Cracking the Arab World’s Development Puzzle: Oil or Politics?
By Ibrahim Elbadawi and Hoda Selim
Is the Arab World cursed by its own institutions rather than by oil wealth? These institutions, which have predated...
Where Next for Syria?
By James Denselow
The conflict in Syria has been going on for almost six years and despite events in Aleppo would appear to have the...
Understanding India as a Rising Power: An Open Economy and Interdependence* Framework
By Aseema Sinha
India’s global priorities have changed and it seeks power and status and acts more actively at regional and global levels. This article...
Stronger Ethics for Better Leadership Using Confucianism and Systems Theory
By Dr. Sunnie Giles
The lack of high ethical standards in Korea as noted in its current presidential corruption scandal destabilises its political system, produces...
TRUMPIN’ AND THUMPIN’ BACK TO THE 1930s
By Dan Steinbock
With the Trump White House, America and a global economy will enter a highly divisive period – as evidenced by the debate...
Is Trump’s True Agenda Starting to Show Shades of Brown? – The Million Dollar...
By Peter Koenig
What is really on President Trump’s agenda, what is trustworthy, and what is sheer farce and eventually killed by its own weight...
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...
