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Mining Continues to Polarize
During a protest in Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan, calling for mine nationalization in October 2012 (Reuters: Vladimir Pirogov) As old as Cortez and colonialism, the quest to satisfy modern appetites...
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SWF Accountability, Transparency: Improvements Noted; More Needed
Members of the International Forum on Sovereign Wealth Funds gathered for their 2012 annual meeting in Mexico City last September. The group will meet again in Oslo in early October. Sovereign wealth...
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Reducing Remittance Costs: A Matter of Competition, Technology — and Post...
Sub-Saharan Africa has some of the highest remittance costs in the world, according to the World Bank, which reports that it costs migrant workers in South Africa $48.17, on average, to remit $200 to...
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Aid for Trade’s Positive Impact Must Reach Local Markets to be Effective
After receiving and reviewing an advanced copy of the Organization of Co-operation and Development’s (OECD) 2013 report Aid for Trade at a Glance: Connecting to Value Chains, I am intrigued by the...
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What “Extending a Hand to the Poor” Too Often Really Means
An anti-corruption campaign sign in Liberia. Photo by Geneva52, courtesy of Wikimedia Commons. The Irish playwright Brendan Behan once opined that, “I have never seen a situation so dismal that a...
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Some Good News (Seriously) About U.S. – Russian Relations
A Russian Far Eastern Shipping Company (FESCO) container ship in port at Vostochniy. Trying to say something upbeat about U.S.- Russian relations this week entails the same risks as going to a wake...
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Attracting FDI: Openness Helps, But Opportunity Rules
If a country had the most-restrictive regulations on foreign direct investment (FDI) of 55 nations studied, where do you think it would rank among those nations in terms of actually attracting...
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A Candid Discussion with Steve Rhodes
As the Middle East continues to plunge in a multi-faceted and what appears to be an increasingly regional crisis, there are debates and even hope about the future of entrepreneurship in the region...
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Can Business Help Build International Harmony?
Mr. Georg Kell, UN Global Compact Executive Director, to brief journalists on a Global Corporate Sustainability Report and the forthcoming Global Compact Leaders Summit, to be held in New York on...
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Battling Extreme Poverty in Bangladesh Part 2: Is Bangladesh on the Right Path?
Photo Credit: UNICEF As the target year for achieving the Millennium Development Goals (MGDs) draws closer, the international community has been reflecting on the development successes and failures...
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Some Realities Behind China’s Call for a “De-Americanized World”
The official Xinhua news agency’s recent call for a “de-Americanized world” echoed the argument that Zhou Xiaochuan, above, Governor of the People’s Bank of China, made in a 2009 paper urging...
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Aspiring Entrepreneur? Then Go East, Young Man (or Woman)
Merlion Park, Singapore. Photo by Bjorn Christian Torrissen via Wikimedia Commons. Singapore is the easiest place in the world for small- and medium-sized domestic companies to do business, with Hong...
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High Frequency Trading: A High-Profile Target Once Again
The majority of stock transactions now are executed virtually rather than on the trading floors of exchanges such as the New York Stock Exchange, above. Photo by Kevin Hutchinson via Wikimedia...
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Trade-based Money Laundering: New Impetus for an Old Threat
U.S. Customs and Border Protection processed more than 25 million cargo containers through American ports of entry in Fiscal Year 2012, a volume that underscores the challenges of combating...
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Foreign Affairs Magazine Presents the Global Economy’s “Up-and-Coming Markets”
Courtesy of Council on Foreign Relations The January-February issue of Foreign Affairs magazine, which is published by the Council on Foreign Relations (CFR), presents a special package on the new...
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