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- 1From:African Business (Issue 486)Jeff Bezos, founder of Amazon and now space traveller, is famous for his observation that "your brand is what people say about you when you are not in the room". Brand management is a big business, but it has important...
- 2From:African Business (Issue 479)Four key figures in African investment gathered together in November for The Africa Debate to discuss investment in the continent, both in the wake of the Covid-19 crisis and longer term. They considered the benefits of...
- 3From:Foreign Affairs (Vol. 99, Issue 4)Crises can drive change, but sometimes it takes two crises to cement a transformation. Alone, the Great Depression ushered in the New Deal, roughly tripling U.S. federal spending as a share of output. But it took World...
- 4From:The Economist (Vol. 435, Issue 9191)How to think about moral hazard during a pandemic COVID-19 CONFRONTS humanity with a host of testing moral decisions. When hospital capacity is limited, which patients should get access to life-saving equipment? For...
- 5From:IMF Working PapersChina's digital economy has expanded rapidly in recent years. While average digitalization of the economy remains lower than in advanced economies, digitalization is already high in certain regions and sectors, in...
- 6From:IMF Working PapersUncertainty over economic policy plays a key role in economic outcomes. But evidence and quantification for emerging markets are elusive because of measurement and reverse causality issues. In this paper, we construct a...
- 7From:The Economist (Vol. 428, Issue 9108)America's long-lived recovery breeds complacency about lingering macroeconomic risks FIVE years after the darkest days of the financial crisis, Lawrence Summers took the dais at an IMF forum to offer a few thoughts...
- 8From:Bankers Monthly (Vol. 108, Issue 11)IF THERE IS one axiom credit card managers have learned over the years, it's that not all cardholders are created equal. Knowing the difference between the good, the bad, and the ugly can mean huge profits. Most...
- 9From:The Economist (Vol. 344, Issue 8032)There seems to be less concern about investment risk, whether it be for so-called junk bonds or for investments in developing countries such as Mexico and Thailand. Caution is still recommended, however. Mexico and...
- 10From:African Business (Issue 211)Project financing pertains to the funding of large-scale projects in capital-intensive industries. There are two stages of project financing: structuring a financing arrangement and 'engineering' the financing of the...
- 11From:Management Accounting (British) (Vol. 74, Issue 1)Management accountants, whilst being exact about profit achieved, can afford to be less exact when making forecasts. Forecasting allows for a margin of error, taking into consideration the level of uncertainty and risk...
- 12From:The Economist (Vol. 396, Issue 8690)Why do people bet? "AT 11pm there usually remained behind only the real, the desperate gamblers--persons for whom, at spas, there existed nothing but roulette, and who went there for that alone. These gamesters took...
- 13From:National Journal (Vol. 31, Issue 28)Citizens used to regard themselves as responsible for protection from risk, but the Great Depression created wide acceptance of President Franklin Roosevelt's paternalistic model of government. Recent US prosperity has...
- 14From:Compliance Week (Vol. 10, Issue 111)Massive in land size, population, and economic power, China is a global giant in every sense of the phrase. That includes the potential to give compliance executives giant headaches. Still, as one of the highest...
- 15From:Spectator (Vol. 310, Issue 9435)'It's a difficult world out there,' admits Chris Kenny, investment director at Smith & Williamson, the wealth management and accountancy group. 'There's the recession, the economy teetering between inflation and...
- 16From:Medical Marketing & Media (Vol. 31, Issue 2)"Opportunity and risk cannot be separated, and no goal can be attained without accepting risk." - John Urquhart and Klaus Heilmann, Risk Watch "Risk" has become an important term and concept in pharmaceutical...
- 17From:The American Prospect (Vol. 11, Issue 6)THERE'S A NEW DOUBLE STANDARD IN THE GLOBAL ECONOMY. ORDINARY PEOPLE GET LESS SECURITYWHILE ENTREPRENEURS--"RISK-TAKERS"--GET GOVERNMENT GUARANTEES. At the opening of the twenty-first century, the United States seems...
- 18From:National Journal (Vol. 30, Issue 42)The relationship between banks investing in financial derivatives and the health of the US banking industry is examined, focusing on the risks associated with the derivatives and the ability of government officials to...
- 19From:Machine Design (Vol. 62, Issue 25)THE DECOUPLING OF ECONOMICS FROM PRODUCTIVE EFFORT Economists often disagree about the fine points of their profession. They even joke about these disagreements, claiming that if all economists were lined up end to...
- 20From:MarketingSuccessful advertising firms are usually characterized as risk-takers. These agencies are highly creative and daring. They come out with bold advertisements that reflect their aggressive marketing outlook. The management...