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What Does Carbon Pricing Success Look Like? Ask These Leaders

British Columbia, Sweden, California and China have been pioneering carbon pricing systems to lower emissions and help shift their economies…

11 years ago

Otaviano Canuto, World Bank Group: Liquidity Glut, Infrastructure Finance Drought and Development Banks

The world economy faces huge infrastructure financing needs that are not being matched on the supply side. Emerging market economies,…

11 years ago

Strategy&: Meeting the Big Data Challenge

Recent research on Big Data should sound an alarm bell for companies. On the one hand, there is a link…

11 years ago

Professor Mary Beard: Every Inch a Fascinating Woman

Mary Beard, professor of Classics at Newham College, Cambridge, is quite unusual. She is one of very few academics to…

11 years ago

Mr Cameron Throws a Tantrum and Loses an Agenda

Politics must surely be one of the most fascinating of art forms. The levels of spin employed by artists to…

11 years ago

United Kingdom – Splitting Rage Takes Root

For all admiration the British nation inspires, anglophiles and others slightly less impressed are wondering what is wrong with the…

11 years ago

Matteo Renzi to the Rescue? European Union – Looking for a Leader to Reassert Its Role

To the pundits and other talking heads who wrote off Europe as a spent force: You ain’t seen nothing yet!…

11 years ago

World Water Week Seeks Solutions to Water and Energy Challenges

Water is needed in almost all energy generation processes. At the same time, the water sector needs energy to extract,…

11 years ago

Otaviano Canuto, World Bank Group: Commodity Super Cycle to Stick Around a Bit Longer

Some analysts have predicted that the commodity price boom has played itself out. However, natural resource-based commodity prices (with the…

11 years ago

From Greece to Canada – George Delaportas: Big Dreams Need Big Country

George Delaportas is writing a new language and needs four years of research, and about EUR 80,000, to compile its…

11 years ago