Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) in the Middle East has distinctive roots and unique expressions that do not always mirror the current understanding and practice in the West. Dima Jamali demonstrates how the long-entrenched traditions of philanthropy and generosity in Arab culture have been reinvigorated in recent years and are starting to cross-fertilize with new, more institutionalized forms of giving.

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The New Competition: Brands from Emerging Markets

January 20, 2014

By Jan-Benedict E.M. Steenkamp

In an article adapted from Brand Breakout: How Emerging Market Brands Will Go Global, Jan-Benedict E.M. Steenkamp argues that emerging market brands will become increasingly global, and suggests that the strategies these companies should use to build global brands are not traditional.

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January – February 2014

January 14, 2014

Management
Restoring Executive Authenticity
By Roger L. Martin

Manage Third Parties and Manage Your Risks
By Adam Turteltaub

Elevating board performance: The significance of director mindset, operating context, and other behavioral and functional considerations
By Simon C.Y. Wong

How Green is the Cloud?
By Kfir Godrich, VP & Managing Principal for HP Technology Services

Finance
Investing in Liquid Gold

Putting Mind into Markets
By David Tuckett

Time to Win Investors Over
By Baruch Lev

World Economy
Rethinking Global Financial Governance Reform
By Daniel D. Bradlow

The Causes of the Banking Crises of the 1920’s
By Simon D. Norton

Emerging Markets are Re-Shaping the Global Economy, But Also Shaking It
By George Magnus

America
A Comment on “The American Mortgage System: Crisis and Reform, eds”
By Marvin M. Smith, Anthony Orlando, and Susan Wachter

An Inquiry into Why America Spends While the World Saves
By Sheldon Garon

Africa
The New Scramble for Africa
By Pádraig Carmody

China
Changes at the top in Chinese Banking
By Violaine Cousin

Middle East
The Believers Are But A Single Brotherhood1: Political Islam In Post-Mubarak Egypt
By Joseph Yackley

From A Niche Market To The Mainstream: What Has Driven Islamic Banking Growth?
By Patrick Imam and Kangni Kpodar

Conventional versus Islamic Private Equity
By Mohamed Ali Chatti and Ouidad Yousfi

Africa’s Green Revolution? Raising Awareness of New Rice Crops for Africa (NERICAs)

January 13, 2014

By Aliou Diagne, Steven Glover, Ben Groom and Jonathan Phillips

A Green Revolution in West African agriculture will rely on new technologies such as NERICA rice varieties. Below, Aliou Diagne, Steven Glover, Ben Groom and Jonathan Phillips argue that raising awareness of NERICAs and improving access to its seed by farmers should be a priority. Strikingly, those that know about NERICAs are not the most likely to adopt them. By targeting ‘Detached Adopters’ it may be possible to rapidly raise the rate of adoption of NERICAs, starting with Gambia’s women.

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Globalisation is Over: The era of transnational marketing and connected consumers

January 13, 2014

By Ibrahim Sirkeci

In an article based on his recent book, Transnational Marketing and Transnational Consumers, Ibrahim Sirkeci argues that there is a paradigm shift in business and marketing management. As the speed of communication and transportation increases, local consumers and organisations are ever more connected but not identical despite the blurring national boundaries. Companies face a tough challenge to achieve efficiencies while customising to the extreme to satisfy “glocal” consumers in this new era of transnational marketing.

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Inequality Trends and Their Determinants: Latin America over the Period 1990–2010

January 13, 2014

By Giovanni Andrea Cornia

For at least the last quarter of the twentieth century, Latin America has suffered from low growth, rising inequality, and frequent financial crises. However, in recent years Latin American countries with different political orientations and economic structures have enjoyed sizeable drops in income inequality. Below, Giovanni Andrea Cornia argues that if left unaddressed, the structural biases of the Latin American economy may block future declines in inequality by retarding the shift to a sustainable and equitable growth path.

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