Natural Disasters, Bank Damages, and Firm Activities
By Kaoru Hosono and Daisuke Miyakawa Below Kaoru Hosono and Daisuke Miyakawa examine the impacts of financial shocks arising from two earthquakes in
How Asia Works: Finance – The Merits of A Short Leash
By Joe Studwell
Deregulating finance for short-term gains may work in developed Western economies, and even then only at times, but premature deregulation has wreaked...
360 Degrees of Leadership
Interview with Deborah Winslow Nutter
In today’s increasingly interconnected world, the lines dividing business, politics, security, trade and finance are becoming ever more blurred....
Dubai Investments Park: Setting New Benchmarks in Sustainability
Dubai Investments Park DIP, the largest integrated commercial, industrial and residential community in the Middle East
Putting Executive Pay in Context
By David De Cremer
Before the financial crisis executive pay in the finance sector had skyrocketed; bonuses were no longer given to reward hard and...
The Wind of Change Must Blow Waste Further up the Agenda
By Jonas Törnblom
Climate change, a shrinking planet and the increasing threat of weather-related disasters are problems that are not going away, but we still...
How Will China Rebalance?
By Michael Pettis
China urgently needs to rebalance its economy, but how it chooses to do so should not be constrained by undue focus on...
ExecuJet: Taking off in Africa
Interview with Chris Frost
While road and rail links in many areas of Africa remain underdeveloped, the business aviation industry is taking off. Here we...
Lions Go Global
By Susan Lund And James Manyika
Imagine a room containing the US President and Vice President and former President Bill Clinton, nearly 40 African heads...
Rethinking a Women’s Health Care Agenda
By Marian Lief Palley and Howard A. Palley
Women’s health care issues are increasingly a part of the political agenda in the United States. Below,...
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...
