Dubai Investments Park: Setting New Benchmarks in Sustainability
Dubai Investments Park DIP, the largest integrated commercial, industrial and residential community in the Middle East
Brexit and London’s Role as an Islamic Banking Hub: Is the Glass Half Empty,...
By Sohail Jaffer
Regardless of the shocking referendum result, there are reasons for optimism about the UK’s role as a hub for Islamic finance in...
Frontier Markets: Old Acquaintances, New Opportunities
By Tomás Guerrero
The emergence of frontier markets is consolidating South-South relations and speeding up the global economic rebalance. Below, Tomás Guerrero describes how, to...
Indonesia Islamic Economic Project: A Disruptive Initiative for a more Just, Inclusive, and Impactful...
By Banjaran Surya Indrastomo
Indonesia Islamic economic project was initiated in the periphery and has been expanding significantly in different spectrums generating both authentic and...
Going Beyond the Boundaries: Renta 4 on Discovering the Growth Potential of the MILA...
A conversation with Mr. Tristán González del Valle Chavarri, Institutional Business Director at Renta 4 Banco and Chairman at Renta 4 Luxembourg
As the dividing...
Into New Markets: Yousuf Mohamed Al-Jaida, CEO at QFC, on the Growth Opportunities and...
Recently, we had the pleasure of speaking with Yousuf Mohamed Al-Jaida, Chief Executive Officer at Qatar Financial Centre. We touch on the industries in...
Dubai Investments Park: The One-Stop Multi-Purpose Destination
Dubai Investments Park (DIP), the largest integrated business and residential community in the Middle East, was set up in 1997 with a mission to...
Ease of Doing Business Act – the key to the Philippines’ economic comeback?
The Philippines has been vying for the ease of doing business act to be signed, and when it was on May 28, economists and...
African Lions in the Making
By Nicolas Depetris Chauvin
Growth without structural transformation has proved to be unsustainable. Africa needs to diversify their economies if they want to become authentic...
Cracking the Arab World’s Development Puzzle: Oil or Politics?
By Ibrahim Elbadawi and Hoda Selim
Is the Arab World cursed by its own institutions rather than by oil wealth? These institutions, which have predated...
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...
