Becoming Better Positioned to Lead the Africa Growth Story
By Zipho Sikhakhane
Africa remains an attractive investment region for the global investor. The businesses that will reap the most benefit from the “Africa rising...
The Strategy for Korea’s Economic Success
By Hwy-Chang Moon
This article offers thought-provoking perspectives on South Korea’s economic development and introduces a new innovative model, through which any actors (especially in...
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...
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...
