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How Trump gave China’s ‘Belt and Road’ scheme a boost
Beijing initiative helps Chinese companies explore markets along ancient Silk Road trade route. By Cary Huang (Read article in PDF format or Read article at South China Morning Post) Chinese President Xi Jinping’s ‘Belt and Road’ trade development initiative, always ambitious, has been given a boost by American counterpart Donald Trump’s protectionist trade agenda and isolationist […]
World Economic Forum: The Fourth Industrial Revolution
Lourdes Casanova moderates panel, Argentina 2017 – Productive Latin America, during the World Economic Forum on Latin America 2017 in Buenos Aires, Argentina.
Getting warmer: China and Latin America strengthen economic and cultural ties
Scholars convened by Johnson’s Emerging Markets Institute and Cornell’s Latin American Studies Program shared their views on “Sino–Latin American Relations in the Age of Trump.” by Giorgi Tsintsadze ’17 During the 2016 U.S. presidential election campaign, trade deals like the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) and NAFTA came under intense public scrutiny. President Donald Trump’s commitment to […]
Seminar: Local Protectionism, Market Structure, and Social Welfare: China’s Automobile Market
Panle Jia Barwick is an Associate Professor in the Economics Department at Cornell University and a faculty research associate at National Bureau of Economic Research. Her research interests are empirical industrial organization, applied econometrics, and Chinese economy. Her research has focused on three main topics: the effect of firm entry on market structure, the welfare […]
Seminar: E-commerce Expands the Bandwidth of Entrepreneurship
Xiaobo Zhang is a Professor of Economics at the National School of Development, Peking University (PKU). He is a senior research fellow at the International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) and Guangbiao visiting professor at Zhejiang University. Professor Zhang’s research areas/interests include Development Economics, Agricultural Economics and Chinese Economy. Abstract: Social networks are cornerstones of personal […]
China: A sneak peek at the future
China is taking advantage of the accelerated growth of its economy. Contrary to other emerging markets, China has managed to disburse growth to large pools of its population, increased disposable income of a previously impoverished population. by German Peralta, MBA ’17 Thanks to the Cunningham Fund, a fund part of the Emerging Markets Institute of […]
Mobile Money, Financial Inclusion and Development in Africa
The symposium focused on addressing questions and issues within a multidisciplinary framework that covered the topics related to the trends in financial instruments, areas of tension and broader finance frameworks. April 19, 21-22, 2017 Cornell University, Ithaca, NY The Cornell Institute for African Development (IAD) in collaboration with the Cornell International Institute for Food, Agriculture […]
Andean Peaks and Silicon Valleys: Entrepreneurship in Colombia
Shifting consumer behaviors, supported by advances in infrastructure, have increasingly enabled the Colombian economy through technology. More than ever before, Colombian entrepreneurs today have new opportunities within their reach – and they know it: 72% of Colombian adults view entrepreneurship as a worthy career path. by Vince Wong, Cornell Tech MBA ’17 In Latin America, there […]
2017 Student Symposium: Global China
Agenda: ► 9:30AM | Breakfast ► 10:00AM | Opening Statements ► 10:15AM | Keynote Lecture by Xiaobo Zhang, Professor of Economics, Peking University “The Economic and Social Consequences of Gender Imbalance in China” Abstract: Sex ratios have become increasing skewed in China in the past several decades. There are at least 30 million excess men […]