In an insightful new analysis, two Harvard professors have revealed why the corporate sector plugging ‘institutional‘ gaps in societies can lead to economic prosperity for both the companies and the nations in which they invest.
The value of social investments in emerging markets and why western companies looking to expand should consider making it a core [...]
The nation of Latvia is quietly burning through its foreign reserves in order to stay pegged to the Euro. Once these reserves run out, CFP Contributor David Harris reports, its ‘game over’. Below, David discusses the potential for economic collapse in Latvia, and indeed it being a catalyst for a further fallout within European and [...]
In the days following Jacob Zuma’s rise to political power, one might forget an upcoming event that will change the way the world views South Africa henceforth - Fifa World Cup 2010. The event is one of the largest sporting spectaculars in the world, and the sport has perhaps the most incensed fan-base out of [...]
Indians turned out in steady numbers today to pick a new federal government in a month-long general election. The elections will run until next month in several stages of scattered polling. At that point, elections officials will count the vote electronically in a single day — on May 16, three days after the last round [...]
A power shift from New York to Washington, from Dubai to Abu Dhabi, from Shanghai to Beijing. The fall of globalization and the rise of state capitalism. President Obama shifting global opinion of the US back out of the red, but its a shift that is blown far out of proportion.
These were but a few [...]
Napoleon once stated that one should be wary of China,” for when she wakes, she will shake the world”. One can not argue the fact that China is now viewed in the eyes of American media, who in some circles have been have noted to have a more introverted view of political events, as a [...]
Earlier this week, I gave a short presentation in London on the legal and political remedies available for foreign investors to protect their assets in emerging markets undergoing resource nationalism trends. In coming weeks, I will be doing similar workshops in Stockholm and Dubai, and I thought it might be helpful to post the [...]
Gideon Rachman at the FT writes about the political dimensions of globalization today, taking note that so long as the very poorest in the world do not feel the benefits of these processes, political support will continue to hamper the free flow of capital, goods, and ideas, feeding into the next wave of protectionism.
The challenge [...]
