Is Effective Waste Collection the key to a Circular Economy?
By Jonas Törnblom
As urbanisation intensifies and sustainability climbs higher up the global agenda, new solutions to old challenges are more important than ever. Waste...
Shadow Bankers Fight a Losing Battle in China
By Joe Zhang
“If President Xi Jinping wants Chinese people to realise their own ‘China dream’, he must tame the credit monster. Shadow banking is...
The Brasília Consensus: Looking for a Second Wind
By Lourdes Casanova and Julian Kassum
This article examines Brazil’s hybrid development model, which combines macroeconomic orthodoxy with certain features of state capitalism, as well...
The Hidden Advantage of Chinese Subsidies
By Usha C. V. Haley and George T. Haley
How did China move so swiftly in capital-intense industries without labour-cost or scale advantage from bit...
Toward a New Global Russia: Leaving the BRICS Behind
By Terence Tse, Mark Esposito, and Olaf Groth
While Russia’s growth in the early 2000s inspired confidence in its potential as a global economic powerhouse,...
Luxury Brands Need to Chart a Course into New Frontier Markets
By Glyn Atwal and Douglas Bryson
The progressively unpredictable dynamics of the BRIC markets are now challenging luxury brands to rethink their global market strategies....
The Rise of the Petroyuan and the Slow Erosion of Dollar Hegemony
By Flynt Leverett and Hillary Mann Leverett
For seventy years, one of the critical foundations of American power has been the dollar’s standing as the...
Internationalising Media Studies
By Daya Thussu
For hundreds of years the West has dominated the world of Media Studies, but Daya Thussu is about to prove to us...
Brazil: Shaping a New Strategy for Global Trade & Investment
By Marcos Troyjo
Brazil’s economic strategy is the expression of an approach that is mostly insular, privileging through every angle its domestic market over a...
Urban Development In India
By A. Panagariya, P. Chakraborty & M. Govinda Rao
Below, Arvind Panagariya, Pinaki Chakraborty and M. Govinda Rao give a detailed account of India’s vast...
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...
