M-Commerce Driving Socio-Economic Development
Elaine Weidman, Vice President, Sustainability and Corporate Responsibility, speaks about the power m-commerce has to eliminate barriers and drive socio-economic development. In countries like Uganda mobile phone technology has transformed the way people live and is the driving force for economic development in the world.
Developing Delta State’s Key Non-Oil Sectors
Delta Beyond Oil where we take you inside Delta States non-oil sector. This state is one of six states that make up Nigeria’s Niger Delta region, where about 2 million barrels of crude oil are produced every day. But as global trends shift, diversifying its economy away from oil has become more critical for the growth of this state.
Anat Admati: The Bankers’ New Clothes
Anat Admati exposes the flaws in the banking system that could trigger another financial collapse, and lays out a plan to fix it in her new book “The Bankers’ New Clothes: What’s Wrong with Banking and What to Do about It.”
Admati is the George G.C. Parker professor of finance and economics at the Stanford Graduate School of Business. She co-wrote the book with Martin Hellwig, an economics professor in Bonn, Germany.
The Future of Europe: The Academics’ Perspective
Finance leaders from around the world discuss the critical issues affecting global financial systems and envision solutions to some of the financial markets’ most pressing problems. Panelists include Myron Scholes, Nobel laureate, 1997, Frank E. Buck Professor of Finance, Emeritus, Stanford University Graduate School of Business; Robert Hall, Robert and Carole McNeil Joint Hoover Senior Fellow and Professor of Economics, Stanford University’s Hoover Institution.
Keeping The Euro Viable
Peter Fisher, senior managing director and head of fixed income at BlackRock, gives his advice on how European politicians should handle the euro crisis. Mr. Fisher previously served as undersecretary for domestic finance at the US Department of Treasury.
Prospects for a New Progressivism
Tristram Hunt MP, Jesse Norman MP, Miranda Green and Matthew Taylor ask: does politics today have the capacity to respond to the kind of complex challenges we are currently facing, such as meeting the needs of an ageing population and reigniting economic growth?
Counting the Cost - China: Money, power and politics
As the changing of the guard in the People’s Republic of China draws closer, we look at just how financially-rewarding being in politics can be. Plus, Iran’s currency crisis, and Vietnam’s missed opportunities.
Understanding AREVA’s Solar CLFR Technology
Understand how AREVA’s Compact Linear Fresnel (CLFR) technology delivers unique advantages in terms of economics, operations, acceptability, local value added and power quality, while being a bankable solution.
The future of emerging markets
Are there speed bumps ahead for emerging markets? Economic growth in the BRICS has slowed and whilst there are cyclical reasons for this, there are more worrisome structural ones too.
How Free Markets Will Beat Climate Change
Matthew Kahn, the author of Climatopolis: How Our Cities Will Thrive in the Hotter Future, argues that “well-meaning government actions” designed to combat the effects of global warming need to be scrutinized more than they have been. Despite the hostility to markets and economic development shared by many green activists, Kahn says that “free-market capitalism” provides the most flexible - and most progressive - solution to environmental issues.
Climate change is coming, he avers, and raising the urban poor’s standard of living and generating new technological innovations will do far more to improve things than top-down attempts to control energy use and consumption patterns.
