The Fourth Industrial Revolution and the (Unwarranted) Pessimism over Jobs

Ever since homo erectus carved a piece of stone into a tool, the welfare of our species has been on the increase. Indeed, this technological breakthrough...

Sovereign Fund or Vision Fund? EU riding on contrasting ambitions

Europe is catching up again. At least, it now believes so. Last month, European leaders agreed to set up a $100bn fund to improve the competitiveness...

Helping Bhutan’s SMEs is Critical for Women Empowerment

Every time I pass by the busy streets of developing Asian cities, Thimphu’s included, I couldn’t help but notice the bustling small businesses lining up the...

Develop while you still can

The last week saw the United Nations General Assembly as the focal point for global affairs, with the center stage given to the confrontation between a...

Cyberattacks and Fiscal Crises Top List of Business Risks in 2019

Economic issues dominate concerns for business executives around the world, according to the World Economic Forum’s Regional Risks for Doing Business 2019 report. In a survey...

2020: Revolutions of New Platform Economies

Moving forward, the world of borderless global business managed by monstrous-hyper-metadata, mysterious-artificial-intelligence and mandatory-cyber-security intertwined with mobilized-block-chain will soon become new reality.Who will own it, control it,...

Huawei and the Blue Economy: Development trends

Currently oceans account for 99% of the future ecological space of our planet. In this case, the extraction of minerals from the ocean floor is a...

Strengthening cooperation to promote the development of the high range Blue Economy

The "blue" industry, especially the high range one, is one of the main development areas for the economy also in the near future.  China, which has...

Foreign direct investment is not coming to Indonesia. Really?

The economic topic receiving most attention in the last few days is certainly that of foreign direct investment, or FDI, thanks to the World Bank, which...

If we want sustainable development, we have to work together

The Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) is our plan for the future. It aims to transform our world and to improve people's lives for more prosperity and...

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