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Despite Sanctions, Russia Remains Global Energy Player
By Ante Batovic for Global Risk Insights In the past year, many Russian energy companies and their executives (including the oil giants Roseneft, Gazprom Neft and Novatek) found themselves on American...
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IPR Report Challenges Effectiveness of Austerity in UK & Eurozone
A new report launched by the University of Bath’s Institute for Policy Research (IPR) calls into question the ‘economic orthodoxy’ that underpins austerity policies. “Alternatives to Austerity,”...
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Don’t Blame China for the Carnage in Global Stock Markets
As the carnage in global stock markets continues, it is tempting to want to revert to the lessons of history as a source of potential salvation. Many financial forecasters are trying to make sense of...
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Chinese Investment Translates to American Jobs
As the US race for the White House kicks into gear, the candidates’ focus should be on job creation. However, many American jobs are now being created by Chinese companies. When President Obama...
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Slovakia is Open for Business
By Louis-Claude Perrault-Carré for Global Risk Insights ‘Tatra Tiger” refers to the massive growth of the Slovakian economy in the early 2000’s. The growth was attributed to economic liberalization,...
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Deeper Regional Integration: An Opportunity for Job Creation in Africa
African countries have the most visa requirements in the world. Only 11 of 54 countries, a mere 20 percent, offer 100 percent liberal access to all African citizens: Seychelles, Uganda, Cape Verde,...
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China’s New Characteristics in Innovation
Lack of innovation has been one of the key weaknesses to the current Chinese economy. To a great extent this problem has resulted from the economic decentralization as Chinese provincial governments...
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Twitter, Terror and Liability: Who Gets to Pay?
By Bruce Baer Arnold for The Conversation If ISIS and its supporters use Twitter to facilitate terrorist action or merely spread propaganda, is the social network liable? A lawsuit against Twitter in...
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What Germanwings Teaches Us About Risk Agility
What is unforeseen is not necessarily something that was unknown, but rather was not predicted or anticipated. By contrast, what is unknown is ambiguous and a mystery, so it cannot be predicted or...
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Consumer Reviews Gain Global Attention in the U.S. and Germany as Litigation...
There’s a new feature available on the Yelp site, but it doesn’t reflect a cause for celebration. The top-tiered review site, home to more than 102 million reviews through Q1 in 2016, introduced in...
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Business and Government Must Work Together to Enhance Global Security
One of the most important reminders of the slaughter in Orlando and San Bernadino is that terrorists often prefer to attack “soft” targets because they usually lack strict security, and there are many...
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Commercial and Financial Risks of the Value Added Tax
In an effort to mitigate budgetary shortfalls due to plummeting oil prices, members of the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) plan to implement the new Value Added Tax (VAT) on January 1, 2018 (and to...
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The Future of ‘FinTech,’ the Driver of Globalizing Africa
MyBucks recently launched our Initial Public Offering (IPO) on the Frankfurt Stock Exchange (FWB), pleasingly fully subscribed and indeed at a particularly intriguing moment in European and no doubt...
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The Corporate Climate of Corruption at Caterpillar Construction
Caterpillar Construction recently reached a settlement in a class action lawsuit over allegedly defective heavy-duty diesel engines; a consolidation of a number of other lawsuits against the company...
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Being Governed by Man-made Risk
The world is being consumed by unforeseen man-made events that have taken the pundits and prognosticators by complete surprise. Whether it is the outcome of the Brexit vote, successive terrorist...
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Brexit and Bitcoin
While Brexit is negotiating the terms of Great Britain’s trade relations and internal politics, the people of Europe have begun hedging their bets regarding the economic fallout. Most people,...
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Puerto Rico-Cuba Investment Corridor
The islands comprising the Spanish-speaking Caribbean, Cuba, the Dominican Republic and Puerto Rico respectively, not only have deep historical roots, dating to the colonial era, their paths to...
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“The Best is Yet to Come”: Munya Maraire Talks the Future of Africa’s...
Munya Maraire hosts arguably one of the more unique backgrounds in African athletic history which is indicative of the continent’s spirit of resilience amidst adversity and determination in the face...
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Freedom to and Freedom From
The wave of mass casualty events across Europe and the U.S. raises serious questions about the cornerstones of liberal democracies, which are not only anchored in the concept of ‘freedom to,’ but in...
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As the Elephant Rises: Rule of Law, Tourism & Investment in a Reinvented Africa
South African playwright Athol Fugard once stated that when the Rainbow Nation went through its extraordinary emergence from Apartheid, it was like having spent a lifetime in a boxing ring with an...
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