The transformation of government can no longer rely on past century models of public administration. Effectively integrating structural alignment with the sensitivities required for engagement is the key.
Solving the Asset–Shortage Problem of Emerging Markets
By Patrick Imam
The growing appetite for emerging market financial assets (such as equity or bonds) by local and foreign investors has not been met by a commensurate increase in the supply of these assets. This is because an economy’s ability to produce output is only imperfectly linked to its ability to generate financial assets.
January – February 2012
Management
Restoring Executive Authenticity
By Roger L. Martin
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
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
Conventional versus Islamic Private Equity
By Mohamed Ali Chatti and Ouidad Yousfi
There are some similarities between Islamic and conventional PE, like for example the active participation, the quick exit of the PE fund and the close partnership. But they display also different features.
From A Niche Market To The Mainstream: What Has Driven Islamic Banking Growth?
By Patrick Imam and Kangni Kpodar
Despite the rapid growth in Islamic banking during the past decade, challenges remain, pointing to the need for further reforms and greater harmonization in the interpretation of what is Shariah compliant between Islamic scholars and bankers.
The Believers Are But A Single Brotherhood1: Political Islam In Post-Mubarak Egypt
The fall of Mubarak and the rise of political Islam illustrate the hidden power of social change. To understand how Egypt’s Islamists performed so well and what it means for Egypt’s future, turn the clocks back to 1952.
Changes at the top in Chinese Banking
At the end of October 2011, the heads of the three financial sector regulators were rotated. It is time to ask what are the rules behind the scenes and what the future holds for the Chinese financial sector.
EDITOR'S PICK OF THE WEEK
China’s Challenging Search for a New Model of Economic Growth
By Danny Leipziger
China cannot continue to rely on exports to drive its growth, but what are the alternatives?
China ran a $1.2 trillion trade surplus last year, and despite admonitions from the IMF to rely...
