Asia Development Politics Cheap and Clean: Attitudes to Energy in a USA Concerned with Climate Change Russia Banking Regulation
China Looks West: What Is at Stake in Beijing’s “New Silk Road” Project
Flynt Leverett, Hillary Mann Leverett
and Wu Bingbing
Transformation of Financial Services in Northeast Asian Banks: An Unexpected, but Pleasant, Cultural Surprise
Jung Kee Hong and You-il Lee
“Empowering Women Makes Economic Sense”
Interview with James Zhan
Failed Statebuilding versus Peace Formation: The Consequences and Implication over the Last 25 Years
Oliver P. Richmond
Global Energy Dilemmas: Revisited
Michael Bradshaw
Stephen Ansolabehere and David Konisky
Putin’s Russia: An Exemplary Case of Hyper-Extractive State
Alexander Etkind
Natural Disasters, Bank Damages, and Firm Activities
Kaoru Hosono and Daisuke Miyakawa
Lessons from the Microsoft Antitrust Cases
Andrew I Gavil and Harry First
January – February 2015
How Asia Works: Finance – The Merits of A Short Leash
By Joe Studwell
Deregulating finance for short-term gains may work in developed Western economies, and even then only at times, but premature deregulation has wreaked havoc in many poorer nations. Here Joe Studwell looks to East Asian economic history to argue that what developing economies really need is tight central-government financial control to support industrial and agricultural development.
World Investment Forum 2014: Investing in Sustainable Development
By Henrietta Morris
In the early 1960s, developing countries began to raise concerns regarding their place in international trade, calling for a conference whose specific focus would be addressing these concerns. And thus the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) was born. Its mission, as stated in 1964, to create “a better and more effective system of international economic co-operation, whereby the division of the world into areas of poverty and plenty may be banished and prosperity achieved by all”.
360 Degrees of Leadership
Interview with Deborah Winslow Nutter
In today’s increasingly interconnected world, the lines dividing business, politics, security, trade and finance are becoming ever more blurred. This is a fact leaders, whether in the private or public sector, must face. We talk to Dean Deborah Winslow Nutter of The Fletcher School about how their Global Masters of Arts Program, now in its fourteenth year, seeks to instil in leaders a 360-degree understanding of international affairs, and why this matters.
Dubai Investments Park: Setting New Benchmarks in Sustainability
Dubai Investments Park [DIP], the largest integrated commercial, industrial and residential community in the Middle East and wholly owned by Dubai Investments PJSC, is one of the most environment friendly developments in Dubai, thanks to its integrated approach to sustainability.
Putting Executive Pay in Context
Before the financial crisis executive pay in the finance sector had skyrocketed; bonuses were no longer given to reward hard and successful work, but rather automatically – no matter what the employee performance was. Below David De Cremer discusses the state of executive pay now and whether organisations will curtail it because they have to or because they should do – ethically speaking.
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