By Abbās Varij Kāzemi & Xiangming Chen
China has spread its ties to the Middle East in ways that go beyond oil. Below, Abbās Varij Kāzemi and Xiangming Chen argue that if we want to know what China’s next global move might be, we should watch the Middle East.
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Emerging Economies
Can Capitalism Save the Environment
Tabitha M. Benney
Joe Studwell
Susan Lund and James Manyika
How will China Rebalance?
Michael Pettis
Abbās Varij Kāzemi and Xiangming Chen
Leverage for Good: The New World of Social-Purpose Finance
Lester M. Salamon
World Investment Forum 2014: Investing in Sustainable Development
Henrietta MorrisExecuJet: Taking Off in Africa
Interview with Chris Frost
Interview with Karin Ireton
Jonas Törnblom
Mike Peirce
360 Degrees of Leadership
Interview with Deborah Winslow Nutter
Total Sustainability
Ian Pearson
Putting Executive Pay in Context
David De Cremer
Rethinking a Women’s Health Care Agenda
Marian Lief Palley and Howard A. Palley
By Flynt Leverett and Hillary Mann Leverett
While President Obama continues – at least for now – to resist redeploying large numbers of U.S. soldiers to fight the Islamic State on the ground, the military components of the anti-Islamic State strategy he has laid out effectively recommit the United States to its post-9/11 template for never-ending war in the Middle East. In the end, such an approach can only compound the damage that has already been done to America’s severely weakened strategic position in the Middle East by its previous post-9/11 military misadventures.
Interview with Jan Sturesson
Jan Sturesson is Global Leader of Government and Public Services Industry at PwC. In the following interview with The World Financial Review, Jan answers some of today’s burning questions on sustainable development and argues that, if development is undertaken with a holistic approach, urbanisation does not have to be the threat to sustainability that many people perceive.
By Ian Brooks
From its early beginnings as a financially risky and purely philanthropic venture, Sustainable Investing has evolved into not only a viable but also a financially rewarding sector. Below, Ian Brooks makes the case for Sustainable Investment and argues that in its modern form it has positive implications for the investor in more ways than one.
Interview with Nikos Avlonas
As the Millennium Development Goals near their 2015 deadline, the role that the private sector must play in driving a global sustainability agenda is becoming clearer than ever. Below, Nikos Avlonas, founder and President of the Centre for Sustainability & Excellence (CSE), discusses the importance of doing business sustainably, the steps organisations must take to integrate sustainability into their day-to-day operations, and how CSE is helping companies around the world improve their sustainability performance.
By David De Cremer and Jess Zhang
In today’s global context, Chinese companies face significant challenges in internationalising their services – not least that posed by contrasting styles of leadership. However, Chinese companies and government are responding to these challenges and changes are happening fast, putting China well on the way to becoming a global giant.
The post-2015 sustainable development goals (SDGs) currently being devised by the international community cannot be fulfilled under the auspices of the public sector alone. Private sector investment will be key to their delivery. However, in order to successfully mobilise the private sector to promote sustainable development, more transparent corporate sustainability reporting is crucial – as James Zhan argues in this article, what gets measured is what gets managed.
