FinTech Can Anchor Asia’s Post-COVID-19 Recovery With Appropriate Policies
By Dr. Bambang Susantono
The COVID-19 pandemic accelerated the adoption of digital technology such as e-payments and digital banking, and online retail sales in Asia...
How False Beliefs In Vaccines Follow Coincidences
By Joseph Mazur
Statistics can show evidence, but it cannot prove that one thing causes another. Hidden variables can tell us a great deal about...
“I, Bitcoin”: As told to Stephen Castell
By Stephen Castell
Inspired by, and paying homage to, the quintessential 1958 essay on free-market economics, “I, Pencil”, by Leonard Read (https://fee.org/resources/i-pencil/), Dr. Stephen Castell...
Petia Dimitrova: “Innovations give us the necessary energy to change banking”
Interview with Petia Dimitrova, Chief Executive Officer and Chairperson of the Management Board of Postbank.
What qualities does a bank need in order to succeed...
Is this the end of trickle-down economics?
By Graham Vanbergen
The global pandemic has changed everything, highlighting the failures of economic policy that has dominated the Western world for the last 50...
The Business Reinvention of Japan
By Ulrike Schaede, University of California San Diego
On February 15, 2021, Japan’s Nikkei 225 index crossed the ¥30,000, for the first time in 31...
A Matter of Intelligence: Interview with Laura Hamilton, Falanx Assynt
It is sometimes said that there is no gain without risk. But just how great is the risk involved in any given business context,...
COVID-19 origins, science and media, facts and fantasies
By Dr. Dan Steinbock
Recently, the joint WHO-China team released its report. Despite a year of politicized infodemic, much of the international media coverage shunned...
In 2021, Women Are Still Changing The World
After a year like no other filled with unwelcomed viruses and isolated lockdowns, 2021 is a breath of fresh air with women who are...
The Importance of Industrialisation in Developing Countries
By Dr. Kalim Siddiqui
I. Introduction
This article also draws upon the East Asian economies’ abilities to allocate resources to stimulate industries and technological development. Despite...
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...
