Wanted to take this opportunity to note that Corporate Foreign Policy will be attending the TD Bank Financial Group forum featuring a moderated “conversation” between former U.S. Presidents George W. Bush and Bill Clinton. Bush and Clinton will appear together in Toronto on a public stage for the first time since Mr. Bush ended his presidency, in [...]
It may take longer than many of us expect, but one way or another the United States, China and other advanced economies will recover from the contemporary economic crisis. The world economy and the geopolitical landscape are unlikely to ever look the same. Dani Rodrik, professor of political economy at Harvard University’s John F. Kennedy School [...]
Entrepreneurship in the continent of Africa is a challenging uphill climb, especially when mired with cutthroat competition, political bureaucracy and little to no connections to help cut through the red tape. Below is a video excerpted from CNN.com, discussing how from apartheid to democracy, South African businessman Herman Mashaba has managed to attain success. [...]
One wouldn’t typically expect the landslide reelection of a party known for its Islamist roots to make foreign investors feel that their capital is secure. Yet in Turkey, in 2007, financial markets cheered the triumph of the Justice and Development Party (AKP) in the July 22 general election. A day after the election, the Istanbul [...]
Greater “transparency”, be it actual openness or not, has been one of the pillars of the Dmitry Medvedev presidency in Russia. With that in mind, Al-Jazeera has reported that today, Medvedev has begun a blog on a popular internet site. Investors need not heed this information as any more than a gaffe, a public relations initiative [...]
Understandably, the global economic recession has ballooned to hinder a plethora of industries. A drop in tourism is usually an early indicator and indeed an unfortunate casualty of a depressing fiscal climate. CNN.com‘s Emily Chang reports on the Chinese government handing out coupons in the hopes of spurring tourism. Its an interesting notion, one built on [...]
Private equity investors are turning towards emerging economies, which have become attractive as they continue to chart growth, while their developed peers are still in negative terrain.”Emerging economies have positive growth rates, while the developed peers are lagging in negative zone. In such times PE players look forward to investing in those economies which can absorb [...]
How do investors interested in Latin America view Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez landing in Beijing? Would they view it as a flamboyant fanatic’s desperate last leg of a world tour made to prop up a failing PDVSA? Would they view it as the final stop on a very successful and diverse investment campaign for Latin [...]
Eliot Brockner has recently written an insightful article on the impact of the global recession on developing nations, and Honduras being one of three nations in the Americas most vulnerable to the ongoing economic crisis. The list of challenges facing Honduras is certainly daunting, and reflective of the political risk drawing ire from those in the [...]
The Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development said on Thursday that the world’s emerging economic powerhouses will survive the crisis better if they liberalise their economies further. In a report tracking developments in six fast-growing economies that it calls the BRIICs – Brazil, Russia, India, Indonesia, China and South Africa – the OECD said countries and [...]
