• Opinion  |  MAY 23, 2013, 3:54 PM

    China grapples with interest rate challenge

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    China’s successful transformation from a middle-income country to a modern, high-income country will depend largely on the reforms that the government undertakes over the next decade

     
  • Opinion  |  MAY 22, 2013, 11:17 AM

    Swaps vote another big win for big banks

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    www.bloomberg.com

    Click on the section of the Commodity Futures Trading Commission website about the 2010 Dodd-Frank financial-reform law and the first thing that jumps out is a quotation, in bold, from CFTC Chairman Gary Gensler about how Dodd-Frank would transform the …

     
  • Opinion  |  MAY 21, 2013, 11:41 AM

    Japan Inc should take a look in the mirror

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    Sony Corp’s curt dismissal of a foreigner’s advice last week didn’t shock Michael Woodford, the former chief executive officer of Olympus Corp. “The club, meaning corporate Japan, will do everything it can to mask and hide what’s wrong. That’s what’s …

     
  • Opinion  |  MAY 21, 2013, 10:35 AM

    The mismeasure of the prevalence of poverty

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    In early 2012, outgoing World Bank President Robert Zoellick announced that the Millennium Development Goal of halving the global poverty rate relative to its 1990 level had been achieved in 2010 – five years ahead of schedule. But many analysts …

     
  • Opinion  |  MAY 20, 2013, 12:11 PM

    Moving Islamic Finance from conference rooms to humanity

    Syakh Akram Nadwi from Oxford Islamic Centre in Oxford, in his publication titled “General Framework for Discussion of Islamic Finance wrote “Yet, if using the word ‘Islamic’ before ‘finance’ is to mean anything at all, it should mean the kind …

     
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