SINGAPORE - Much has been said in recent weeks about the future of the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) and US trade relations with Asia-Pacific countries following the election of Donald Trump as the ...

What conditions lead to world-changing innovation? It's an important question for business and government leaders. Contrary to the traditional notion of the solitary scientist, new products, services ...

This release is also available in Adobe Acrobat PDF format. In Trade Liberalization in Aviation Services: Can the Doha Round Free Flight? (AEI Press, March 2004), Brian Hindley of the London School of ...

One of the strongest justifications for the economic liberalization that began in the 1980s is that it not only raised growth rates, but that growth percolated down to the poorest people. True, ...

Key opportunities in the Middle East Africa private equity market include growth driven by digital transformation, regulatory liberalization allowing greater foreign participation, and expanded public ...

At the beginning of the 1990s, policy doctors were almost unanimous in advocating a strong dose of capital and financial market liberation for developing countries as a way to improve their prospects ...

Is it real or is it pokazukha? This is usually the first question on the minds of Kremlin-watchers when something happens to suggest high-level infighting among Russia's ruling elite. It comes up ...

(From left) Aditya Birla, Kumar Mangalam Birla, G.D. Birla and B.K. Birla. Kumar Mangalam Birla was just 28 when he took control of the conglomerate in 1995 after his father's death. Photo: Birla ...

A fundamental issue in undertaking capital account liberalization is how to reap the benefits from capital market access while coping safely with the risks associated with international capital flows.

This paper examines the distributional impact of capital account liberalization. Using panel data for 149 countries from 1970 to 2010, we find that, on average, capital account liberalization reforms ...

Full liberalization of China's interest rates, a critical step for financial reforms, is highly anticipated by the market. The central bank's July announcement that it would remove all restrictions on ...