Singapore as an ASEAN Asset Management Hub
By Francis Koh and Boris Liedtke
Singapore like other ASEAN countries is also confronted with the universal challenge of retirement funding. Nonetheless, the authors argue...
Tadatoshi Akiba: “The Goal of The Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons is...
A conversation with the former mayor of Hiroshima on nuclear weapons By Joseph Mazur
The city of Hiroshima will forever live in the memory...
The Seeds of Ideology: Historical Immigration and Political Preferences in the United States
By Dr Paola Giuliano and Dr Marco Tabellini
Recent immigration flows to Europe and the US are usually associated with heated political backlash. Yet, little...
Development Should Guide US-Philippine Mutual Defense Treaty Review
By Dan Steinbock
In times of great uncertainty, strategic ambiguity offers little clarity. The review of the U.S.-Philippines Mutual Defense Treaty should be...
The Dirty War on Syria: No Popular Uprising
By Tim Anderson
The world has been deceived over the conflict in Syria. It was always a ‘regime change’ dirty war and never a popular...
The Valuation of Nature after the Pandemic Seeing More Than Instrumental and Intrinsic Values
By Johanna Zoe Hartmann & Michael Palocz-Andresen
The valuation of nature has relied broadly on instrumental and intrinsic values that form a dichotomy, an approach...
International Trade in 2021: Challenges and Opportunities
By Charles Hollis
What does 2021 hold in store for international trade? The trading environment presents a complex picture, with issues such as the...
Global Hospitality Cautious Optimism
By Peter Plaut
COVID-19 Dismantled the Global Hospitality Industry on Many Levels
In recent years, global tourism has fuelled exponential growth in the hospitality sector, but...
What Does the New US Administration Mean for Business?
By William Hobbs, Head of Investment Strategy, UK and Europe, Barclays
How much of this new US administration’s often fluid and sometimes contradictory agenda should we...
Why Transfer Pricing is Key to Decision Making and Strategic Reviews
By Les Secular
This article looks at how Transfer Pricing can impact the bottom line on financial statements, particularly in the current global economic climate,...
EDITOR'S PICK OF THE WEEK
The World Bank and Neoliberalism: Continuity and Discontinuity in the Making of an Agenda
By Howard Stein
Since the latter part of the 1990s the World Bank has increasingly claimed its main focus is on poverty reduction and development. Among other things, the Bank introduced poverty focused loans, a...
