Chinese e-commerce and communications companies are playing leading roles in the nation’s continued Internet development. These corporations are expanding their roles in e-commerce, communications apps, and other fields that both support economic growth and help to narrow the rural-urban digital divide.
In this article Manoel Bittencourt argues that corruption is killing economic growth and prosperity in Brazil. Using standard economic theory and data he shows that the demonstrations taking place in Brazil are a natural reaction of a population that wants a brighter present in “the country of the future”.
The Tokyo 2020 Olympics reflects a sense of optimism to the world community and has become a centerpiece of the Abe administration’s economic revival plans. Still, when the curtain is drawn back, this sense of elation is belied by a smeared darkened reality, exposing a seriously flawed fiscal state of affairs as well as an ongoing out-of-control nuclear disaster in the backyard of upcoming Olympic events. Whether Japan is suitable to hold the Olympic games has not been a subject of widespread journalistic controversy. This article examines the issue in that context.
The Responsible Finance Summit will identify how Islamic finance and responsible finance can meet the values of the new middle class and support sustainable, inclusive and equitable economic growth.
After the plunge of the commodity prices, the US Fed’s rate hikes are paving way for dimmed prospects in many emerging economies. Nigeria is not an exception.
Mr. Georg Kell, now Vice-Chairman of world’s firm ESG quant fund, Arabesque Partners, will speak at Summit hosted by Bank Negara Malaysia
Summit’s inclusive and global focus attracts sustainable asset management firm with unique approach to environmental, social and governance (ESG) integration
For over two decades, Wharton Executive Education has offered strategy programs that have helped senior executives solve some of their biggest business challenges.
A Disunited United States: What the 2016 Election Says About America Law Central Asia Syria Middle East Harvesting the Biosphere Japan Management Design China Brazil
United States
The Keys to the White House: Forecast for 2016
Allan J. Lichtman
Leonard Steinhorn
The Responsibility to Participate: The Problem of Global Engagement in Responding to the Syrian Refugee Crisis
Charles H. Camp & Theresa B. Bowman
The Strategic Significance of Central Asia
David Denoon
The Dirty War on Syria: No Popular Uprising
Tim Anderson
Durability before Democracy: Why Stability is Elusive in the Middle East
Sean YomSustainability
Why Selling the SDGs Isn’t as Easy as ABC
Belinda Goldsmith
Vaclav Smil
Tokyo 2020 in the Face of Hardship
Robert Hunziker
The Culture Map – Decoding How People Think, Lead, and Get Things Done Across the World
Erin Meyer
Make It New: The History of Silicon Valley Design
Barry M. Katz
The Internet in China: How the Network is Shaping the PRC’s Economic and Social Landscape
Eric Harwit
Is Brazil still “The Country of The Future”?
Manoel Bittencourt
