The urgent need for new action and thinking on the governance of emerging technologies

The World Economic Forum today released a new book by its Founder and Executive Chairman Klaus Schwab entitled Shaping the Fourth Industrial Revolution. The...

Economics Students Unite in Bangladesh to Explore Paths Toward One South Asia

The 14th  South Asia Economic Students’ Meet (SAESM) commences in Chittagong, Bangladesh today, embracing the arrival of over 110 top economics undergraduates and faculties...

Sovereign wealth funds: Investment vehicles or political operators?

The $6.85 billion acquisition in 2006 of Peninsular & Oriental (P&O) Steam Navigation Company, a storied British shipping and logistics company, by Dubai’s state-owned...

Manufacturing Transformation Set to Create a Two-Speed World

A new report launched today by the World Economic Forum reveals that only 25 countries are in the best position to gain as production...

Cybersecurity Threats Outpacing Abilities of Governments and Companies

Cybersecurity threats are outpacing the ability to overcome them unless all stakeholders begin to cooperate. The increasingly networked, digitized, and connected world is vulnerable...

Turkey, an Energy Hub or drowned in Economical crisis?

Turkish Economy have experienced great developments during last six decades, more than most of countries around the world. Accelerating Turkish economic growth made mainly...

Securing Robust Financial Markets for Stable Growth in Emerging Asia

Twenty years after the Asian Financial Crisis resulted in the region’s greatest economic dislocation, two lessons from that episode continue to resonate to date....

To Resist the Robots, Invest in People

A knitting factory in Bangladesh brings together the past, present, and future. On one floor, workers knit by hand. On another, people and machines...

Buckle up for the new passenger economy

A hundred years ago, few thought that the clunky automobile that broke down so often would ever replace a horse. In the 1970s, people...

5 things to know about connected cars

If you could go back in time and tell people that in the near future there would be a handheld device that would allow...

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