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Oil and Gas Industry

The Elasticity of Economies to Oil Price Fluctuations

In recent years, the sharp increase in oil prices that began in 2001 and the two sharp declines that followed in 2008, due to the subprime mortgage crisis, and...

Alternative Energy

The 2015 Asian Clean Energy Forum’s New Context

As we gather this week for the 2015 Asian Clean Energy Forum, the context for our meeting has changed greatly from that of last year. We have seen a...

Economic Conditions

Bridging the ‘Academic-Practitioner’ Divide in International Affairs

Any attempt to bridge the divide between scholars and policy-makers in international affairs is so welcome that I could not help but applaud this book, “Scholars, Policymakers, and International...

Currencies

A Currency Model for Pacific Nations to Foster Stable Economic Growth

The Pacific developing member countries (DMCs) of the Asian Development Bank are a heterogeneous group of economies with different levels of economic development and economic size. However, when it...

Asia

Integrating South Asia with Southeast Asia

A new opportunity for South Asia–Southeast Asia integration A new opportunity for South Asia–Southeast Asia integration The time is ripe for enhancing economic integration between South Asia and Southeast...

Asia

Asia’s ‘Demographic Dividend’ and Higher Education

In most higher education discourse today it is not unusual to hear the claim that the world’s center of gravity is shifting toward the East. Indeed, no region has...

Business Today

The Credit Risk Database in Japan is a Model for the Rest of Asia

Considering the importance of small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) for employment and GDP and the number of such firms in Asian countries, there needs to be further efforts to...

Economic Systems

The Future of Public-Private Partnerships in ASEAN Countries

Discussions I’ve had around public-private partnerships (PPPs) in Asia have typically focused on India and the PRC because of their strong deal volumes. Having listened to and interacted with...

Economic Conditions

Remittances are Reducing Poverty, but Can They Do More?

Over the past decade, many developing countries have made substantial progress toward reducing poverty, and remittances sent by migrant workers have hugely contributed to this progress. Over the past...

Economic Conditions

Are You Living, or Stuck, in a Middle-Income Economy?

The notion of a middle-income trap has generated much interest and discussion, but little consensus. There is no agreement on what the trap is or how long a country...

Contributors

President of World Bank Group, Islamic Development Bank, African Development Bank, Asian Development Bank, European Bank for Reconstruction and Development, Inter-American Development Bank respectively.

Al-Madani - Kuroda - Mirow - Moreno - Zoellick

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The World Needs A New Trade Pact: Robert Zoellick et al.

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Following a career as a photographer and video producer, Alice began working in financial services as an IFA in 2007. She began her career as an investment writer and financial journalist in 2009, working for a number of top financial institutions while obtaining extensive expertise writing for a range of industries and audiences. Alice went to St Andrews University to study English and Russian.

Alice Briggs

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Argentina’s Energy Secretary in 2002, and subsequently its World Bank representative. Alieto Guadagni has a doctorate in economics from the University of Chile. In 1991 he undertook the role of undersecretary of Production for Defense in the Ministry of Defense in Argentina, and consequently became secretary of International Economic Relations of the Ministry of Foreign Relations. In 1993, Guadagni was appointed an official ambassador of Brazil. He has worked as a consultant for international organisations such as the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB), the World Bank, the Organization of American States, and the United Nations, in addition to being a researcher at the Universidad Torcuato Di Tella.

Alieto Guadagni

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The YPF Takeover Will Not Solve Argentina’s Energy Problems: Alieto Guadagni

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Founding members of Columbia University’s Center on Capitalism and Society. Amar Bhide is a Visiting Professor at Harvard Business School, currently teaching ‘Lessons from Transformational Medical Advances’. Edmund Strother Phelps (born July 26, 1933) is an economist who won the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences in 2006.

Amar Bhide and Edmund Phelps

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Fiscal Fallacies – The Root of All Sovereign Debt Crises: Amar Bhidé & Edmund Phelps

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Amy Griffin enjoys writing about social media, other marketing strategies, and finance. Some of her best-known work includes educational content related to finance and economics.

Amy Griffin

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How to Improve Your Credit Without Using a Credit Card

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Chief Economist at NGP Energy Capital Management Dr. Anas F. Alhajji is a Managing Partner of Energy Outlook Advisors and was previously the Chief Economist at NGP Energy Capital Management. He was in charge of the firm’s macro-analysis of the oil, natural gas, and associated markets, as well as the general economy. Dr. Anas F. Alhajji is a leading expert on the energy markets, and has published over 900 papers, articles, and columns.

Anas F. Alhajji

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High Oil Prices: Caught in a Sea of “Vicious Cycles”

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Senior fellow at the Peterson Institute for International Economics. Adjunct professor at Georgetown University. Per Anders Aslund is a Swedish economist and a Senior Fellow at the Atlantic Council. Additionally, he is the chairman of the International Advisory Council at the Center for Social and Economic Research. From 2003 Aslund was the director of the Russian and Eurasian Program at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. His work mainly focuses on the economic transition from centrally planned to market economies. Anders Aslund has been dubbed by David Frum as ‘one of the world’s leading experts on the collapse of the planned Soviet economy.’

Anders Åslund

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The BRICs Party Is Over

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Andrea Edwards has worked in marketing and communications all over the globe for 20 years, and is now focused on her passion – writing. A gifted communicator, strategist, writer and avid blogger, Andrea is Managing Director of SAJE, a digital communications agency, and The Writers Shop – a regional collaboration between the best business writers in Asia Pacific

Andrea Edwards

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