Sponsorship opportunities at the Global Infrastructure Leadership Forum (December 9-11 | Washington, DC) where we will present a fine selection of the top 100 projects required to jump-start the wo...
Southeast Asian tiger economies feel threatened by competition from other countries and worry that their growth momentum might be flagging. Even though their growth rates are above the average for...
Conceived just 15 years ago, knowledge management (KM) is the business discipline about which managers perhaps know the least. Having spent pots of money investing in it, the benefits are still mar...
The government of Bolivia seeks to reinvigorate the nontraditional export sector as part of its national development strategy. This Country Study investigates the role that trade should play in Bol...
Equality of opportunity is about leveling the playing field so that circumstances such as gender, ethnicity, place of birth, or family background do not influence a person’s life chances. Success i...
Over the last decade, information and communication technologies (ICT) have been increasingly used to achieve development goals. Developing countries, including poorer ones, have enjoyed rapid tech...
East Asian economies – Singapore and Hong Kong SAR – occupy the top two positions in the Enabling Trade Index ranking, followed by Switzerland, Denmark and Sweden, according to The Global Enabling ...
"One of the classic techniques of government spin-doctoring is to brief the press prior to a bad news announcement to the effect that the announcement is actually good news.
Today the Irish Inde...
December 9th - 11th, 2009
The 3° Annual Global Infrastructure Leadership Forum
"Sustaining the World Economy - Infrastructure Hot Spots and Opportunity"
By hosting the Top 100 Projects from aro...
For the first time in the republican history of Peru, the presidential transition takes place in democracy, social peace, fast economic growth and favorable world markets. In other words, there has...
China and India's new-found interest in trade and investment with Africa - home to 300 million of the globe's poorest people and the world's most formidable development challenge - presents a signi...
The economic successes of China and India are viewed with admiration but also with concern because of the effects that the growth of these Asian economies may have on the Latin American and Caribbe...
The paper assesses the effects of increasing competition in the service sector in Italy
which, based on cross-country comparisons, is the OECD country with the highest markups
in non-manufacturin...
Switzerland, Austria, Germany, France and Canada lead the rankings in the Forum's Travel & Tourism Competitiveness Report 2009 (http://www.weforum.org/tourism).
This year’s report, published und...
The Atlantic Century: Benchmarking EU and U.S. Innovation and Competitiveness
It has become almost a cliché to point out that the rise of advanced transportation and communication technologies ...
ITIF uses 16 indicators to assess the global innovation-based competitiveness of 36 countries and 4 regions. This report finds that while the U.S. still leads the EU in innovation-based competitive...