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European Environment Agency: EU 2050 – Green Economy Needs Fundamental Change
The EU is largely on track to meet its climate change-related goals for 2020. While this is a considerable achievement, I believe there is a lot more to do. Most critically, the incremental gains we are currently achieving to meet
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European Investment Bank: Bank at the Heart of Europe’s Crisis Response
When the leaders of international financial institutions and development banks gathered in Washington DC for their bi-annual meeting a few weeks back, the key focus was somewhat different from the previous ones – for the first time in years, the
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OPIC: Low Write-Offs in Emerging Markets Investments
What organization do you represent? Overseas Private Investment Corporation, the U.S. Government’s development finance institution. In your experience or view, is the invest in Africa story hype or reality? Explain your view using worked examples investment situations, good and bad
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Qatar Tops Per Capita Investment in Dubai Realty (AED 6.71 million), Followed by Oman, UAE, KSA, Germany, India and Britain
Dubai, UAE, 25 February 2014: Qatar has the highest per capita investment in Dubai realty in 2013 (AED 6.71 million), followed by Oman (AED 5.77 million), the UAE (AED 4.56 million), KSA (AED 3.71 million), Germany (AED 2.37 million), India
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Mr Putin Spills His Coffee Reading the Morning Paper
Where is a leader when you need one? He is probably jogging around the White House with his running-mate Joe Biden, trying to keep in shape while figuring out how to keep the Russians in check. Meanwhile in Moscow, Mr
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Mauldin and Tepper’s Code Red Reviewed: Code Red or Red Herring?
By Stephanie Kelton If you aren’t already unnerved by what Bernanke & Co. have been doing for the last five years – things like quantitative easing (QE), a zero-interest policy (ZIRP) and large-scale asset purchases (LSAPs) – then reading John
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Ernst & Young, Argentina: Legal Certainties in Argentina – Court Sides with Business
Sergio Caveggia and Leonardo Favaretto of EY explain the implications of the Spinna Argentina SRL case with regard to Income Tax Law and Argentine Business Associations Law and what current regulations say in these cases. Recently, the Federal Court of
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Wit, Knowledge and Intellect: Ronan Farrow Poised to Reassert Primacy of Reason
Family connections, or at least bearing a name of near-universal acclaim, do seem to facilitate the breaking down of barriers guarding the entrance to the world of fame and its attendant fortune. To the scions of the famous, this is
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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 bank guidelines and allowed new entrants onto the market. Is there a need for new banks? Will these be able
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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 times at ports and long lead times. Although “time is money” is a universal idiom, few have looked into how
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