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Lending in Mexico: Alex Chung’s Perspective
The lack of a widespread banking services infrastructure in Mexico creates a problem for poor, rural Mexicans who need and/or want access to traditional banking services by Vidur Ahlowlia, Ahmed […]
What is next for Uzbekistan?
Opening trade and financial channels with the rest of the world is essential for Uzbekistan to become a sound economic player. by Anna Poplasky MBA Candidate at Cornell University, Emerging […]
Scarcity of infrastructure a major obstacle to national economic growth
Private investors hesitate to invest in infrastructure in developing countries because of high level of political risk, exchange risk, and demand risk. by HyungJoon (Simon) Kim Based on my summer […]
Unveiling the Energy Sector through a Summer Internship
by Marcelo Oliveira de Paiva, MBA ’17 and Environmental Finance and Impact Investing Fellow During my internship on the trading floor of an energy company, I stumbled upon the concept […]
ISS Project to Study Economics, Politics of China Urbanization
By Lori Sonken via Cornell Chronicle One in 10 people on Earth live in China’s cities. Over the past decade, nearly 200 million people in China have moved from rural […]
Barriers to Entry and Regional Economic Growth in China
Speaker: Loren Brandt Loren Brandt is a Professor of Economics at the University of Toronto specializing in the Chinese economy. He has been at the University of Toronto since 1987. […]
The world is not flat… and that creates many opportunities!
Roberto dos Reis Alvarez is the Executive Director of the Global Federation of Competitiveness Councils (GFCC – www.thegfcc.org). In his famous book “The World is Flat: a Brief History of […]
Is Brazil becoming a true market oriented modern economy?
Corruption and a corrupted way of doing politics, populist measures and relaxed fiscal and monetary policies showed that Brazil still has a long way to go before becoming a developed […]
Emerging and Connected: Insights on Broadband from Brazil
We are always online. We pay our rent, buy furniture, take language lessons and schedule our next appointment to the doctor, let alone the time spent on social media. The […]