INCLUSIVENESS
The global economy is experiencing the first acceleration in synchronized growth in 10 years; growth is picking up in all the major economies and regions…
ANALYSIS
- by Michael Spence, Nobel Laureate, New York University
INDUSTRY
What makes a country innovative? One of the many ways to delve into this question is via the Global Innovation Index (GII) report, which I…
ANALYSIS
- by Soumitra Dutta, Cornell University
INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS
During the 19th Communist Party Congress in Beijing, much of the global attention was focused on changes to the political leadership; even after the event…
ANALYSIS
- by Srikanth Kondapalli, Jawaharlal Nehru University
GENDER
What do we imagine when we refer to “the global” or “globalization”? As many scholars have pointed out, the Anglo-European experience has often been considered…
ANALYSIS
- by Michael J. Hathaway, Simon Fraser University
INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS
President Xi Jinping is wholly committed to the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI). He made this clear in front of a large gathering of world…
ANALYSIS
- by Fengshi Wu, Nanyang Technological University
FINTECH
However problematical “global currency” may be to define, we in general know it when we use it. That currency today is the U.S. dollar, but…
ANALYSIS
- by Peter Gordon and Juan José Morales
INCLUSIVENESS
Since 1980, many economies have experienced two concurrent trends: rising wealth-income ratios and increasing income inequality. These trends have been playing out particularly spectacularly in…
ANALYSIS
- by Filip Novokmet and Li Yang, Paris School of Economics
INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS
We are living in an age of technological revolution unlike anything humankind has experienced before. The confluence of the internet, big data...
INSIGHT
- by Andy Yee, Visa
INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS
On February 9, 2018, the Winter Olympic Games will officially begin in the South Korean town of Pyeongchang. But Olympics-induced games of a diplomatic sort…
ANALYSIS
- by Guoqi Xu, The University of Hong Kong
INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS
No country has benefited economically more than Australia from China’s recent, historically unprecedented growth and development. Yet few countries are more worried about the possible…
BOOK REVIEW
- by Mark Beeson, University of Western Australia