Otaviano Canuto, World Bank: Overlapping Globalisations

Current technological developments in manufacturing are likely to lead to a partial reversal of the wave of fragmentation and global value chains that was at the core of the rise of North-South trade from 1990 onward. At the same time,

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Book Review: Private Island – Why Britain Now Belongs to Someone Else

A Balance Disturbed for All the Wrong Reasons It remains somewhat of a mystery how Chancellor of the Exchequer George Osborne manages the UK government’s financial affairs. Presiding over a buoyant economy, planning the biggest privatisation exercise ever, and mandating

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Mercury Capital Advisors: Customisation and Global Presence

Headquartered in New York, and with offices in London, Tokyo, Singapore, Dubai, San Francisco, Boston, and Washington DC, Mercury Capital Advisors competes via a differentiated platform with product offerings across private equity, hedge funds, real estate, credit, distressed, venture capital,

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Alexander Forbes Group: Three Strategies for Growth

Alexander Forbes Group Holdings Limited, a specialised financial services group headquartered in South Africa, successfully listed on the main board of the Johannesburg Stock Exchange (JSE) on Thursday 24 July, 2014. The company focuses on employee benefits solutions for institutional

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Fidel Castro: An Antagonist Remembered

The last Marxist-Leninist to hold a place on the world stage has left, signalling the end to an era that saw revolutionists taunt empires and topple autocratic regimes. A charismatic romantic to the very end, Fidel Castro died on November

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A Sojourn in Davos: Things Will Never Be the Same

Book Review – The Magic Mountain by Thomas Mann For all its potential as a canvas for the display of human suffering, sick-lit never quite made it as a genre. In her 1926 essay On Being Ill, Virginia Woolf expressed

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Davos: Till We Meet Again – Bankers Packing Up

Dutch Finance Minister and President of the Eurogroup Jeroen Dijsselbloem is worried that the increased insularity of thought displayed by Prime Minister Theresa May will prove near-fatal for the United Kingdom: “We’ll probably meet again twenty years from now. By

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CFI.co Meets the Director General of Wafacash: Samira Khamlichi

Bridging worlds and bringing people together: there is more to the remittance business than just shuffling cash across borders. In Morocco, Wafacash has been pushing the envelope for over a quarter century tapping into both its domestic market and the

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Werner Hoyer, President of the European Investment Bank (EIB): A Mostly Unseen Hand

In late-December, President Werner Hoyer of the European Investment Bank shared his experiences and insights with CFI.co.  He leads an institution more than twice as large as the World Bank, yet remains virtually unknown outside financial circles. Werner Hoyer (66)

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Containers Printers: Premier Packaging Solutions Provider

At Containers Printers quality and sustainability sit at the very core of an approach to business that has delivered consistent growth and transformed the Singapore company into a trusted partner of industry. The package solutions provider was founded in 1981

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