Decline of Parties, Rise of Hucksterism (and Trump)
By Timothy Braatz
The influx of hundreds of millions of dollars into US presidential elections has undermined the influence of Democratic and Republican leaders in...
Duterte and the Multipolar Strategy That Shakes Washington
By Federico Pieraccini
On May 30, 2016 Manila’s parliament appointed Rodrigo Roa Duterte as the sixteenth president of the Philippines following his election victory over...
Latin America’s Challenge: More and Better Saving for Development
By Eduardo Cavallo and Tomás Serebrisky
The Latin American and Caribbean region is trapped in a vicious cycle of low savings and poor use of...
Implications of Islamic Finance in Africa’s Socio-Economic Development
By Basheer Oshodi
Africa, a continent which still feels the scars of slave trade, the wounds of colonialism and apartheid, the disaster of neo-liberalisation, and...
Blinded by Nostalgia
By Yuval Levin
Recourse to a glorious past is of course nothing new in political rhetoric. And Americans suggest that a return to that state...
The Informal Sector in India: Prosperity or Persistence of Misery?
By Saumya Chakrabarti, Daipayan Sarkar and Ankita Biswas
Based on the recent publication of Saumya Chakrabarti’s Inclusive Growth and Social Change: formal-informal-agrarian relation in India...
China’s International Renminbi Is Coming – Is Wall Street Ready?
By Dan Steinbock
On October 1, the Chinese renminbi officially becomes the fifth international reserve currency. Until recently, Washington played geopolitics...
A Reform Agenda for Post-Brexit Europe
By Andrea Montanino, Lilac Peterson, & Álvaro Morales Salto-Weis
Following Brexit, it is even more important that the European Union focus on further integration. It...
Rio 2016 and the (Broken) Promises of the Olympic Games
By Simon Darnell and Rob Millington
The 2016 Olympics in Rio de Janeiro were to catalyse and signify Brazil’s final transition into a modern, developed...
Japan’s Impending Monetary Exhaustion
By Dan Steinbock
Japan’s monetary gamble and Abenomics are approaching the end of the road. Neither Brussels nor Washington is immune to the adverse consequences...
EDITOR'S PICK OF THE WEEK
The Performance and Transformation Orchestrator: The CFO’s New Mandate in the Age of AI
By Terence Tse
CFOs are evolving into AI-driven transformation orchestrators, balancing finance, technology, and strategy while upskilling teams, managing risks, and driving measurable business value.
A key insight from this year’s AI for CFOs event, organized...
