Mortgage Lending Solutions for Troubled Markets
By Anna DeSimone
Creation of wealth began with farmers who planted something into the land and earned income from harvesting food. Others created wealth from...
Can Financial Innovations Mitigate Civil and Ethnic Conflict?
By Saumitra Jha
The failure to align the incentives of self-interested groups in favor of beneficial reform is often considered a major cause of civil...
Global Tourism and Travel Industry: Performance During the Double-Dip Recession and Recommendations for Transition...
By Maharaj Vijay Reddy
This review article outlines the impressive growth of the global tourism and travel industry during the on-going economic slowdown. It briefly...
Enterprise Risk Management A need to hasten the obliteration of legacy IT systems
By Anna DeSimone
Back in the 1980s, IBM mainframe systems were the heart of a bank’s computer structure. During this period, integrated retail banking systems...
Why Information Providers Need To Be Open To Sharing in Their Business Models
By Joshua Gans
Information content providers, especially publishers of media (including books, news, journals, music and video), have been concerned that “information wants to be...
A Story About Inspiring A Local Community To Become Entrepreneurial Using Lessons Learnt From...
By Yiannis Kanellopoulos
IT management consulting is usually perceived as a technical endeavour in which consultants focus on bits and pieces. However, it primarily has...
Calgary, Canada: A Global Energy and Financial Centre
By Paul Paynter & Rachel Yin, Calgary Economic Development
Alberta’s energy sector is a key economic driver and has been for decades. The rich resources...
How Rapidly Should Africa Go Green? The Tension Between Natural Abundance And Economic Scarcity.
By Paul Collier & Anthony J. Venables
Africa is the green continent: its CO2 emissions per person are less than one tonne pa, one-fifteenth of...
The Mindful Manager
By Peter Lenney
"Management is, above all, a practice where art, science, and craft meet." This statement, from Henry Mintzberg, encapsulates the premise behind being...
Transfer Pricing Update: New discussion draft issued by OECD
By Les Secular
The OECD has issued an updated Discussion Draft on “The Interpretation and Application of Article Permanent Establishments (‘PE’) – of the OECD...
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...
