Asia Pacific

IFC: Indonesia Needs Good Corporate Governance

Indonesia’s economy is facing tough challenges: A slowdown of gross domestic product growth, a depreciation of the rupiah and a…

11 years ago

How to Tame an Unruly Bear

You heed Teddy’s advice: Speak softly and carry a big stick. That’s how a bear is brought to its senses.…

11 years ago

OECD: Latin America’s Outlook Clouded by Asia’s Slowdown and Financial Uncertainty

The external scenario is less favourable for the region due to the downturn in global trade, the moderation in commodity…

11 years ago

KPMG: India – Banking on New Banks

India’s financial sector has tons of questions to ask since the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) spelled out the new…

11 years ago

OECD: Time, Trade and Trade Facilitation

Time is money and a lot of money and opportunities are being lost due to painstakingly long customs procedures, waiting…

11 years ago

World Bank Group: Financial Inclusion – Banking on Low-Income Households

Financial exclusion restricts economic opportunity and constrains poverty reduction. Yet today there are an estimated 2.5 billion adult people worldwide…

11 years ago

United Nations Office for Project Services (UNOPS): Sustainable Results in Challenging Environments

From building shelters in Haiti or helping to improve the school system in South Sudan, to buying medicines in Myanmar…

11 years ago

Michael Pettis: Markets Rationale and Volatility – The Case of China

Last month’s award of the Nobel Prize in Economics set off a great deal of chuckling because one of the…

11 years ago

Wang Meng: A Champ Tumbles and Falls on Her Way to the Top

We all crash into the barricades from time to time and Wang Meng, China’s most successful winter Olympian ever, did…

11 years ago

IFC, ECOM Training Helps Women Farmers Boost Income, Productivity

Women make up 80 percent of coffee farmers in North Sumatra of Indonesia and 50 percent in Lam Dong of…

11 years ago