Economy

The Yuan versus the Dollar: Showdown in the Global Financial Arena

At the 1944 Bretton Woods Conference, the United States laid the foundation for the U.S.-centric international monetary system, thus ensuring the dollar’s status as the key...

Why Wealthy Countries Must Step Up Their Contribution to Fight Global Poverty

Member countries of the International Development Association (IDA), a part of the World Bank Group, are meeting shortly to discuss the 19th replenishment of IDA, which will...

BRICS countries deem a single crypto currency

Speaking on the sidelines of the BRICS summit, which took place in Brazil in mid-November, President of the Russian Direct Investment Fund (RDIF) Kirill Dmitriev came...

Is Russia Rich or Wealthy?

Authors: Apurva Sanghi and Glenn-Marie Lange Vedemosti (Russia) Which would you rather be: rich or wealthy? And what exactly is the difference? Being rich is related to...

On Monopolies: From Standard Oil to Google and Amazon

One of the very first investigative journalists, Ida Tarbell, went after the "throttling hand" of Standard Oil and John D. Rockefeller.  By 1880, his company owned 90...

The agreement between International World Group and National Ocean Technology Center

International World Group (IWG), the new and already well- established company founded by Giancarlo Elia Valori has signed a very important Agreement with China’s National Ocean Technology...

Belt and Road: Prospects for Sino-Armenian cooperation in the financial-banking sphere

The main aim of this research is to analyze and present why and how China is trying to implement a plan with which it could become...

Entrepreneurs of the World Rise: 2020 Strategies

A billion new entrepreneurs are on the march; young and old, big and small, from rich nations and from poor nations, this time most entrepreneurs all...

Global Turmoil: Ethics offer a way out of the crisis

Rarely is out-of-the-box thinking needed more than in this era of geopolitical, political and economic turmoil. The stakes couldn't be higher in a world in which civilizationalist...

Fair Competition Is Needed for the Economic Empowerment of Women in the Arab World

Authors: Ferid Belhaj and Rabah Arezki* Female labor force participation levels in Arab countries are the lowest in the world—despite the rising educational attainment of women reaching...

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