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Rakesh Rawal, CEO of Anand Rathi Wealth Services Ltd Makings of a Great CEO: Professionalism, Humility and being a Good Human
What excited you about the businesses you worked for during your earlier career, and what excites you about the business you now lead? Rakesh Rawal: In my earlier career I worked for Hindustan Unilever. What excited me in those days
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Dubai Ranks First Globally in Attracting FDI for AI & Robotics
Dubai ranks first globally in attracting foreign direct investments (FDI) for artificial intelligence and robotics The emirate has attracted from 2015 to 2018 $21.6 billion worth of FDI in high-end technology transfers with the most from the European Union and
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The Roca Brothers: Community-Based Solutions for Food Security
To become the best is not necessary to go global. Spain’s three Roca brothers, celebrated as royalty in foodie circles, believe that food security begins at home. The brothers have repeatedly questioned the viability of current agribusiness models which see
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The Kandy-Kolored Tangerine-Flake Streamline Baby
“He sounded like Jean-François Revel, a French socialist writer who talks about one of the great unexplained phenomena of modern astronomy: namely, that the dark night of fascism is always descending in the United States and yet lands only in
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Nordea Asset Management: Pinch, Push, and Shift…
While financial markets globally have undergone substantial stress and change, an increasing number of mainstream investors see ESG (Environmental, Social, and Governance) integration as a way to improve their long-term financial performance and to respond to the increasing client demand
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Political Order and Political Decay: From the Industrial Revolution to the Globalization of Democracy
“When the middle class constitutes only 20–30 percent of the population, it may side with antidemocratic forces because it fears the intentions of the large mass of poor people below it and the populist policies they may pursue.” For Francis
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President Armen Sarkissian: Quantum Politics Defined, Explained, and Considered
Armenia is ready for its time in the spotlight. The landlocked country experienced a watershed moment earlier this year when journalist-turned-politician Nikol Pashinyan, 43, set out on a protest march opposing the long rule of Serzh Sargsyan, who served two
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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez: Young Congresswoman Refuses to Play Nice
It takes the gumption of a hero to identify as a socialist in the United States, and something of a miracle to get elected to public office under a red banner. But that is what 29-year old Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez has
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WEF: Back to the Basics?
Concerned over widening geopolitical fissures, the World Economic Forum (WEF) has embarked on a quest to map and leverage global commonalities. The 2018 WEF summit in Davos centres on Creating a Shared Future in a Fractured World. The organisers note
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AI Convergence in 4IR
Artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning are gaining a strong foothold across numerous applications, lowering the barriers to the use and availability of data (figure 1). From now on, AI will not only be relevant to just a few large
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