Economy & Markets

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...

Doing Business Report 2020: Soaring Changes with Soaring Doubts

As Narendra Modi brands his government of making new leaps; similarly, the World Bank’s annually published report, “Doing Business” has largely become a tool to evaluate economies....

BRICS acts as a collective will to safeguard global multilateralism

Authors: Zhou Dong chen &Francis Kwesi Kyirewiah* On November 13-14, the 11th BRICS Summit was held in Brasilia, capital of Brazil, where Chinese President Xi Jinping...

CHETRA Eyes Africa for Expansion

CHETRA is a Russian company that sells industrial equipment and spare parts under the brand "CHETRA" produced by the Promtractor plant, as well as supplies spare...

The Bust: WeWork’s diminishing stature of the perfect “start-up”

Until recently, the globally acclaimed startup, WeWork was transforming the future of office spaces and staff hiring processes. Truly, it was transformational in the sense that...

Alibaba on Platform Economy

Alibaba on national mobilization of entrepreneurialism on platform economy: today, Alibaba sold $38 Billion within 24 hours: Around the world, currently, there are 100 nations with...

China’s Descending Rise

China is in a sustained economic slowdown. This is causing malignant unease among the political and economic leadership of the communist party in Beijing that governs...

Agribusiness: Africa’s New Investment Frontier

Authors: Mariam Yinusa and Edward Mabaya* In the past decade, a stroll along the aisles of any African supermarket is revealing: there is a new wave...

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