Category: Business & Economics
91 Articles
- Business & Economics
Addressing Crypto: The Need for Regulation and the Potential for Central Bank Digital Currencies
Cryptocurrencies are a form of digital money exchanged via distributed ledgers known as blockchains. Transactions between digital wallets are typically recorded publicly and…
January 11, 2022
- Business & Economics
Japan Makes Control of Emerging Technologies a Priority
Japan’s new prime minister, Kishida Fumio, has promised to “think about national security from a variety of perspectives, not just force.” While this is a longstanding part…
November 10, 2021
- Business & Economics
Pandora Papers Revelations: What Is at Stake?
The Pandora Papers, released by the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists (ICIJ) early in October 2021, is the largest data leak about secret offshore assets held…
November 9, 2021
- Business & Economics
Preventing the Next Systemic Emerging Markets Debt Crisis: Debt Affordability for Emerging Markets in a Post-Pandemic World
The hysteresis to sovereign debt affordability for emerging markets due to the pandemic is difficult to overstate. The financial resources of most EMs are already strained from…
August 5, 2021
- Business & Economics
‘Green’ Extractivism and the Limits of Energy Transitions: Lithium, Sacrifice, and Maldevelopment in the Americas
Transitions Months after former Bolivian President Evo Morales was forced from office in October of 2019, Elon Musk triggered conspiracy theorists across the political spectrum…
July 20, 2021
- Business & Economics
The African Union Private Sector Development Strategy: A Catalyzer of Socio-economic Transformation in Africa
During the last two decades before COVID-19, Africa recorded an average annual 4.6 % growth rate despite an unfavorable international economic and financial environment. This…
July 15, 2021
- Business & Economics
Intersecting Interests and Coincidental Compatibility: How China, the EU, and the United States Can Coordinate Their Push for Globalizing Green Finance
As a key component of meeting the Paris Agreement, green finance has been a vital issue in climate change mitigation after China initiated a G20 working group in 2016. Since, …
July 15, 2021
- Business & Economics
COVID-19: An Accelerator for Sustainable and Smart Urban Transitions?
A Turning Point for Sustainable and Smart Urban Transitions? The COVID-19 pandemic has caused widespread and tragic destruction in terms of human lives, and, through efforts to…
July 14, 2021
- Business & Economics
Building National Supply Chain Resilience
In May 2021, a cyberattack shut down the operations of a major gas pipeline along the East Coast of the United States. A month earlier, a combination of weather and…
July 11, 2021
- Business & Economics
Reorienting Policies for Aging Societies: Policies of Integrating Healthcare and Elderly Care in the United States and China
In the United States, the nation’s decision makers have been confronting an enormous range of specific challenges for the aging society. Attempts or proposals to reform the…
July 8, 2021