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Building Tomorrow's Agents of Change Across Africa
By the close of the century, sub-Saharan Africa will be the world's most populous region. Growth a
nd prosperity will depend not on natural resources, but on the talent and entrepreneurial energy of the region's young professionals.
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Growth on the Frontier: Insights From African Executives
Sub-Saharan Africa has emerged as one of the world's fastest-growing regions.
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Start-up Nations: Creating Laboratories for Developing Economies
Emerging and frontier markets have eclipsed the advanced economies in GDP share and growth, just a
s the New World surpassed the Old at the end of the 19th century.
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Investing in Emerging Markets: The Returns Are in the Details
When investors bunch countries together with labels like BRIC, it often obscures the subtle differ
ences in national economies such as trade exposure to the U.S., Europe, Japan and China.
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China's Outbound Investment: A Bid for Influence or Better Returns?
As Asia's wealth grows, new investors from the region are looking for prospects beyond their borde
rs. Chinese corporates are poised to take an even larger role in global commerce as they turn to cross-border mergers and acquisitions.
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Great Ambition: Islamic Finance Goes Global
Islamic banking, based on religious principles that forbid collecting interest, is one of the fast
est-growing sectors in global finance and one that escaped significant damage during the financial crisis.
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Credit Markets: What's Next?
Institute Chairman Mike Milken moderates our annual look at the issues shaping the global credit m
arkets. How are corporate bond markets responding to new capital-requirement rules for banks and dealers?
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The World in Turmoil
Events of the past year suggest the world is sinking deeper into turmoil. Religious extremists are
literally gaining ground in the Middle East and Africa, and Russia backs Ukrainian rebels in defiance of Western sanctions.
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MENA Region: New Tactics to Transform Economies and Accelerate Growth
As economic growth and political reforms continue in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) regio
n, many of those countries have been compelled to accelerate structural reforms to diversify their economies away from hydrocarbons, boost the role of the
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