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              <title>Steering a new course in unchartered waters</title> 
                  <link>http://knowledge.insead.edu/NewCourseUncharteredWaters081015.cfm </link> 
	              <pubDate>Thu, 30 Oct 2008 07:54:31 GMT</pubDate>
                  <description><![CDATA[ With credit getting tighter, companies are going to have to change the way they do business and manage their cash. Laurence Danon, executive board member of Edmond de Rothschild Corporate Finance in France, says we are likely to see companies implementing huge cost-savings plans, probably with significant layoffs and dramatic changes to capital expenditure and development programmes. ]]></description> 
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              <title>Japanese business: Time to take the brake off?</title> 
                  <link>http://knowledge.insead.edu/contents/Witt.cfm</link> 
	              <pubDate>Tue, 17 Apr 2007 05:19:28 GMT</pubDate>
                  <description><![CDATA[ The Japanese economy may be the second largest in the world, but it was struggling in the 1990s and early 2000s. And while economic pain might have resulted in structural reforms elsewhere, that has not happened in Japan. ]]></description> 
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              <title>Can Africa unlock its potential?</title> 
                  <link>http://knowledge.insead.edu/INSEAD-knowledge-africa-rise-of-the-last-frontier-110627.cfm</link> 
	              <pubDate>Mon, 04 Jul 2011 04:18:00 GMT</pubDate>
                  <description><![CDATA[ Africa is turning the page on 50 years of over-reliance on Western economies, thanks to strengthening trade and investment links with emerging countries like China, India, Turkey and oil-rich countries in the Middle East. And although the continent’s economic growth will be hit this year by the turmoil in North Africa, analysts say prospects for sub-Saharan Africa are brighter than they have been for some time.  ]]></description> 
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              <title>Attitude is everything: The case for Turkey</title> 
                  <link>http://knowledge.insead.edu/INSEAD-knowledge-attitude-is-everything-110425.cfm</link> 
	              <pubDate>Fri, 06 May 2011 09:04:17 GMT</pubDate>
                  <description><![CDATA[ Turkish membership could make the EU a world leader, contends Yilmaz Argüden, chairman of Istanbul-based ARGE Consulting. ]]></description> 
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              <title>Branding Africa</title> 
                  <link>http://knowledge.insead.edu/brandingafrica090119.cfm</link> 
	              <pubDate>Mon, 19 Jan 2009 04:43:28 GMT</pubDate>
                  <description><![CDATA[ Think of Africa and you’re likely to conjure up images of warfare, drought and corruption. But Ruurd Brouwer, Africa Director of entrepreneurial development bank FMO in the Netherlands says that, in order to attract investment to the continent, we need to get rid of the sorts of images as depicted by aid agencies and instead replace them with pictures of successful African bankers driving Mercedes cars.<br>
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              <title>What next after human capital, infrastructure, and good governance?</title> 
                  <link>http://knowledge.insead.edu/sami-mahroum-economic-growth-and-development-110111.cfm</link> 
	              <pubDate>Wed, 02 Mar 2011 03:14:03 GMT</pubDate>
                  <description><![CDATA[ It takes more than human capital, infrastructure and good governance to foster economic growth and development, writes Sami Mahroum from INSEAD's campus in Abu Dhabi. ]]></description> 
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              <title>Environmental degradation: Counting the cost of rapid economic growth</title> 
                  <link>http://knowledge.insead.edu/contents/ILSAenvironment.cfm</link> 
	              <pubDate>Tue, 13 Nov 2007 02:30:34 GMT</pubDate>
                  <description><![CDATA[ Bad air, polluted water, depleted resources and global warming. These are some of the emerging hallmarks of Asia’s booming growth in recent years. From Beijing to Bangalore and beyond, the consequences of industrial development are tainting the region’s environment. ]]></description> 
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              <title>The big picture from West to East</title> 
                  <link>http://knowledge.insead.edu/the-big-picture-east-to-west-101213.cfm?vid=504</link> 
	              <pubDate>Thu, 16 Dec 2010 07:10:06 GMT</pubDate>
                  <description><![CDATA[ Continuing debt issues have put central banks and governments the world over into uncharted waters. What lies ahead for the US, Europe and Asia? Sir Andrew Large, a former Deputy Governor of the Bank of England, Gertrude Tumpel-Guggerell, an ECB executive board member and Zhuang Juzhong, Deputy Chief Economist of the Asian Development Bank, share their outlook. ]]></description> 
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              <title>India’s growth finds fuel in Africa</title> 
                  <link>http://knowledge.insead.edu/INSEAD-knowledge-indias-fresh-appetite-for-african-stakes-110627.cfm</link> 
	              <pubDate>Mon, 04 Jul 2011 04:25:23 GMT</pubDate>
                  <description><![CDATA[ One robust emerging market is finding the real growth opportunities are not on Wall Street, but in the “dark continent”. ]]></description> 
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              <title>What price energy security?</title> 
                  <link>http://knowledge.insead.edu/INSEAD-knowledge-what-price-energy-security-120424.cfm</link> 
	              <pubDate>Fri, 27 Apr 2012 09:09:15 GMT</pubDate>
                  <description><![CDATA[ Increasing demands from a growing world population, civil unrest, terrorist attacks, human mistakes, natural disasters… all add up to a future full of “ifs” for the energy industry.  ]]></description> 
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              <title>The path to energy futures: the long march with pitfalls</title> 
                  <link>http://knowledge.insead.edu/EBS-energy-strategy-100726.cfm?vid=454</link> 
	              <pubDate>Mon, 26 Jul 2010 09:30:56 GMT</pubDate>
                  <description><![CDATA[ There is an obvious connection between energy and economic growth: cheap fuel means lower production costs. As energy consumption is on an upward trajectory -with growth in the Far East and Latin America outpacing the industrialised countries in the near term - the key to prosperity is to develop cheaper and sustainable sources of fuel to replace fossil fuels and curtail the environmentally-unfriendly carbon footprint. <br>
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              <title>EU-China relations: soft power versus brute force in the global marketplace</title> 
                  <link>http://knowledge.insead.edu/economics-and-politics-EU-China-relations-100729.cfm</link> 
	              <pubDate>Thu, 29 Jul 2010 08:10:58 GMT</pubDate>
                  <description><![CDATA[ This is definitely not a good time to be upbeat about the EU. The unfolding drama of Greek public finances threatens to unravel one of the club’s main achievements in crafting a monetary union of 16 different states, while the non-policy to emerge from the Copenhagen summit on climate change last December was decided over the Commission’s head by a de facto alliance between the US and main emerging market countries of China, Brazil, South Africa, Russia and Brazil. To cap it all, US President Barack Obama decided not to attend May’s EU summit in Madrid to celebrate the Lisbon treaty. The Chinese press tends to describe the European Union as disunited, inward-looking and characterised by low economic growth. And the prevalent mood of pessimism in Brussels about the EU, and the stiffening of China’s resolve to project its national interest into world politics neatly complement each other. <br>
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              <title>Why diversity matters: the lessons from the setting of the rising sun</title> 
                  <link>http://knowledge.insead.edu/japan-economic-outlook-101108.cfm?vid=492</link> 
	              <pubDate>Mon, 15 Nov 2010 02:52:38 GMT</pubDate>
                  <description><![CDATA[ Japan's economy has been in dramatic decline, says INSEAD professor Stewart Black. What's causing its malaise and can we expect a rebound? ]]></description> 
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              <title>A view of the Indian landscape: Harpal Singh of Fortis Healthcare</title> 
                  <link>http://knowledge.insead.edu/harpal-singh-india-business-landscape-101108.cfm?vid=493</link> 
	              <pubDate>Mon, 15 Nov 2010 02:57:56 GMT</pubDate>
                  <description><![CDATA[ Harpal Singh of Fortis Healthcare examines the strengths and challenges in the Indian business arena. ]]></description> 
                  <guid>http://knowledge.insead.edu/harpal-singh-india-business-landscape-101108.cfm?vid=493</guid> 
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              <title>Energy security: a picture of uncertainty</title> 
                  <link>http://knowledge.insead.edu/sustainability-energy-security-100917.cfm</link> 
	              <pubDate>Wed, 22 Sep 2010 12:41:41 GMT</pubDate>
                  <description><![CDATA[ Uncertainty surrounds the security and sustainability of energy supplies in the UK <br>
from 2015 onwards, with energy prices rising – in some cases – to uncomfortably high levels. “Gas would be a very important bridge to take us to the Elysian fields of a much cleaner energy scene of onshore and offshore wind, renewables, and an expectation of a very large chunk of nuclear,” says Alistair Buchanan, Chief Executive of Ofgem (the Office of the Gas and Electricity Markets), speaking at The Economist’s recent UK Energy Summit. ]]></description> 
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              <title>Between property boom and bust: where is China's economy heading?</title> 
                  <link>http://knowledge.insead.edu/china-economy-outlook-101108.cfm?vid=489</link> 
	              <pubDate>Mon, 15 Nov 2010 02:54:21 GMT</pubDate>
                  <description><![CDATA[ Are property prices in China excessively high and is there a lot of leverage in the market? ]]></description> 
                  <guid>http://knowledge.insead.edu/china-economy-outlook-101108.cfm?vid=489</guid> 
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              <title>It's time that politicians had performance-related bonuses</title> 
                  <link>http://knowledge.insead.edu/governance-mechanism-politicians-performance-100628.cfm</link> 
	              <pubDate>Mon, 28 Jun 2010 10:23:31 GMT</pubDate>
                  <description><![CDATA[ During the financial crisis, politicians across the spectrum have assailed bankers’ bonuses. In a similar way, politicians should now use the sovereign-debt crisis as an opportunity to re-examine their own pay. The collapse of the largest Ponzi scheme in history, the European Social Model, is not caused by inappropriate bonuses, but by a lack of bonuses.  ]]></description> 
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              <title>On the loss of legitimacy and contagion of scandals</title> 
                  <link>http://knowledge.insead.edu/finance-skandia-scandals100419.cfm?vid=406</link> 
	              <pubDate>Wed, 21 Apr 2010 05:05:48 GMT</pubDate>
                  <description><![CDATA[ How do consumers react when the ‘bad apple’ is a scandal-ridden financial company? How much do sales suffer as a result of its wrongdoing? What are the effects on sales of other similar companies such as pension providers, fund managers, and insurers?<br>
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              <title>Debt overhang, inflation threaten world economy</title> 
                  <link>http://knowledge.insead.edu/economics-debt-inflation-100430.cfm?vid=411</link> 
	              <pubDate>Fri, 30 Apr 2010 11:10:22 GMT</pubDate>
                  <description><![CDATA[ Inflation and the debt burden on Western countries and Japan are two major challenges facing the global economy this year, says Philippa Malmgren, President and founder of the Canonbury Group and Principalis Asset Management.  ]]></description> 
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              <title>Cathay Pacific takes off cautiously to brighter skies</title> 
                  <link>http://knowledge.insead.edu/IATA-Cathay-Pacific-performance-100622.cfm</link> 
	              <pubDate>Tue, 22 Jun 2010 05:21:41 GMT</pubDate>
                  <description><![CDATA[ At its Annual General Meeting recently, IATA (International Air Transport Association) predicted that the industry will recover faster than expected, with Asia-Pacific carriers powering the upturn. INSEAD Knowledge takes a closer look at the performance of one of these airlines: the flag carrier of Hong Kong, Cathay Pacific.<br>
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              <title>Infrastructure key to Africa’s growth: Asia has role to play</title> 
                  <link>http://knowledge.insead.edu/economy-and-politics-africa-100518.cfm?vid=422</link> 
	              <pubDate>Tue, 18 May 2010 11:06:27 GMT</pubDate>
                  <description><![CDATA[ If Africa wants to bridge the chasm from emerging to developed economy, it must have one crucial component in place. According to Paulo Gomes, founder and CEO of Constelor Investment Holdings, which was set up in 2006 to harness investment opportunities in Africa, infrastructure is sorely needed for the land-locked continent. ]]></description> 
                  <guid>http://knowledge.insead.edu/economy-and-politics-africa-100518.cfm?vid=422</guid> 
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              <title>Is it over yet? Businessmen offer recession insight</title> 
                  <link>http://knowledge.insead.edu/ILSE-economy-overview-061008.cfm?vid=432</link> 
	              <pubDate>Tue, 08 Jun 2010 11:22:07 GMT</pubDate>
                  <description><![CDATA[ These are indeed times that try men’s (and women’s) souls. But the way forward is not to cut back or sit on the sidelines. According to several businessmen attending INSEAD’s Leadership Summit Europe, you’ve got to keep one eye on the balance sheet, another on the horizon and be mindful of constant change as new circumstances will often hide opportunities in what appears to be trouble. <br>
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                  <guid>http://knowledge.insead.edu/ILSE-economy-overview-061008.cfm?vid=432</guid> 
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              <title>CEO view: Josep Oliu, Banco Sabadell</title> 
                  <link>http://knowledge.insead.edu/finance-josep-oliu-banco-sabadell-100415.cfm</link> 
	              <pubDate>Thu, 15 Apr 2010 11:23:29 GMT</pubDate>
                  <description><![CDATA[ Josep Oliu has been through three economic crises as a banker in Spain -- two of them since becoming CEO of Banco Sabadell Group. The veteran banker spoke with INSEAD Knowledge recently at the Group’s headquarters in Barcelona about the crisis and what we can learn from it. ]]></description> 
                  <guid>http://knowledge.insead.edu/finance-josep-oliu-banco-sabadell-100415.cfm</guid> 
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              <title>Putting Europe back on track</title> 
                  <link>http://knowledge.insead.edu/EBS-report-Europe-economy-100726.cfm?vid=457</link> 
	              <pubDate>Mon, 26 Jul 2010 09:32:13 GMT</pubDate>
                  <description><![CDATA[ What will it take to put Europe back on track? That question was the basis for the eighth European Business Summit and a research report conducted by INSEAD, Accenture and the Federation of Enterprises in Belgium, with funding from Sun and Microsoft.<br>
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Some 250 chief executives and other leaders from the private and public sector were interviewed for the survey, and the answers revolve around three main themes: <br>
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              <title>Rebuilding Europe: new architecture needed to kick-start economy</title> 
                  <link>http://knowledge.insead.edu/ILSE-rebuilding-Europe-100608.cfm</link> 
	              <pubDate>Tue, 08 Jun 2010 11:23:09 GMT</pubDate>
                  <description><![CDATA[ With a weakened financial system and various European governments knee-deep in debt, the emergence of a new world financial order has taken on a new urgency of late. But instead of quick fixes as the Greek crisis has clearly demonstrated, we should instead be looking for sustainable solutions towards economic prosperity. ]]></description> 
                  <guid>http://knowledge.insead.edu/ILSE-rebuilding-Europe-100608.cfm</guid> 
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              <title>Lessons learned: The Nordic banking crisis of the 1990s</title> 
                  <link>http://knowledge.insead.edu/ILSE-Lessons-learned-banking-crisis-100608.cfm?vid=430</link> 
	              <pubDate>Tue, 08 Jun 2010 11:25:43 GMT</pubDate>
                  <description><![CDATA[ Once burned, twice shy. That’s a lesson that has helped a lot of Swedish and Finnish businesses dodge major disaster during the world’s most recent economic crisis.  ]]></description> 
                  <guid>http://knowledge.insead.edu/ILSE-Lessons-learned-banking-crisis-100608.cfm?vid=430</guid> 
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              <title>Social responsibility in business today</title> 
                  <link>http://knowledge.insead.edu/ILSE-social-responsibility-in-business-today-100608.cfm?vid=429</link> 
	              <pubDate>Tue, 08 Jun 2010 11:27:04 GMT</pubDate>
                  <description><![CDATA[ Gordon Gekko might be back in cinemas in Wall Street II, but he seems to be less visible in today’s boardrooms. As economic crises, erupting volcanoes and crippling earthquakes plague the planet, social consciousness is in, greed is…well, not out, but certainly down.  ]]></description> 
                  <guid>http://knowledge.insead.edu/ILSE-social-responsibility-in-business-today-100608.cfm?vid=429</guid> 
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              <title>Braving the economic crisis through family values</title> 
                  <link>http://knowledge.insead.edu/ILSE-family-business-romav-group-100608.cfm?vid=433</link> 
	              <pubDate>Tue, 08 Jun 2010 11:31:01 GMT</pubDate>
                  <description><![CDATA[ When the economic crisis hit, the family owned and operated shipping-real estate Romav Group suffered a double-whammy. Practically overnight. ]]></description> 
                  <guid>http://knowledge.insead.edu/ILSE-family-business-romav-group-100608.cfm?vid=433</guid> 
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              <title>Getting back to basics</title> 
                  <link>http://knowledge.insead.edu/ILSE-summary-getting-back-to-basics-100608.cfm</link> 
	              <pubDate>Tue, 08 Jun 2010 11:35:09 GMT</pubDate>
                  <description><![CDATA[ Whether in innovation and governance, private equity, or entrepreneurship, the messages in today’s increasingly global business environment are loud and clear: think differently, don’t underestimate emerging markets, and get back to basics. These were some of the main themes voiced at INSEAD’s Leadership Summit Europe 2010 held recently in Fontainebleau. ]]></description> 
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              <title>Doing it the Chinese way: Disney's strategy for a lucrative ride in China</title> 
                  <link>http://knowledge.insead.edu/Disney-China-100615.cfm</link> 
	              <pubDate>Tue, 15 Jun 2010 06:29:56 GMT</pubDate>
                  <description><![CDATA[ Last year Beijing gave the green light for Disney to build a theme park in Shanghai which is estimated to cost $3.5 billion. The resort, which is expected to open in five or six years, will include a local version of a Magic Kingdom-style theme park, hotels and shopping areas. It will be slightly larger than Disneyland in California, taking up 1,000 acres in Shanghai’s Pudong district.  ]]></description> 
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              <title>China’s quiet confidence</title> 
                  <link>http://knowledge.insead.edu/economy-china-confidence-100527.cfm</link> 
	              <pubDate>Thu, 03 Jun 2010 05:33:12 GMT</pubDate>
                  <description><![CDATA[ China’s premier, Wen Jiabao, has said that 2010 will be a very difficult year for the country’s economy, yet in Q1 its performance was remarkable. China’s gross domestic product (GDP) grew by 11.9 per cent in Q1 2010, outstripping the 8.7 per cent annual GDP growth achieved in 2009 and the 10.7 per cent growth of Q4 2009. The growth for Q1 was the fastest in almost three years. There are indeed areas of concern, most notably the threat of a bubble forming in the property market and potential instability in the banking sector. The data for Q1 should, however, inspire quiet confidence among China’s leaders on the state of the economy, especially as China is expected to contribute a full third to this year’s global growth and is set to overtake Japan as the world’s second-largest economy.<br>
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              <title>Upstart: China’s emergence in technology and innovation</title> 
                  <link>http://knowledge.insead.edu/economy-china-technology-and-innovation-100527.cfm</link> 
	              <pubDate>Thu, 03 Jun 2010 05:34:03 GMT</pubDate>
                  <description><![CDATA[ It can easily appear as if China can make anything. Yet it makes goods not only at low cost, but now also of high quality, and this constitutes a particularly Chinese brand of innovation that enables China increasingly to shake up global markets. After coming of age in China’s domestic markets, Chinese firms are now replicating their domestic success in global markets by competing on price and quality. The success of the likes of Huawei and Lenovo are indicative of an emerging trend of Chinese technology and innovation, yet China’s emergence is only just beginning. <br>
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              <title>Making more from less: does Mother Nature have enough resources to go around?</title> 
                  <link>http://knowledge.insead.edu/ILSE-natural-resources-100608.cfm?vid=428</link> 
	              <pubDate>Tue, 08 Jun 2010 11:29:31 GMT</pubDate>
                  <description><![CDATA[ Global growth isn’t all about jobs and the stock market: it’s also about people. The global population will increase, despite the ageing baby boomer generation; there will be increased demands for minerals, energy, food, even blood. <br>
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              <title>Why the French love social conflict</title> 
                  <link>http://knowledge.insead.edu/theo-vermaelen-french-society-101108.cfm</link> 
	              <pubDate>Fri, 19 Nov 2010 11:28:46 GMT</pubDate>
                  <description><![CDATA[ The French are still taught today that class warfare is the nature of their society and will remain, as long as not all classes are equal. However, equality is impossible, writes INSEAD professor of finance Theo Vermaelen. ]]></description> 
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              <title>Bridging the gulf between GCC laws and the West</title> 
                  <link>http://knowledge.insead.edu/INSEAD-knowledge-bridging-the-gulf-between-GCC-laws-and-the-West-110921.</link> 
	              <pubDate>Fri, 30 Sep 2011 05:45:27 GMT</pubDate>
                  <description><![CDATA[ GCC nations have attempted to modernise and standardise their legal frameworks in the past 30 years to encourage foreign investment in this rapidly growing region. But how much investment can be expected when foreigners can’t own their businesses outright and business debts are secured by a cheque? ]]></description> 
                  <guid>http://knowledge.insead.edu/INSEAD-knowledge-bridging-the-gulf-between-GCC-laws-and-the-West-110921.</guid> 
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              <title>What's behind the UK riots?</title> 
                  <link>http://knowledge.insead.edu/INSEAD-knowledge-UK-riots-110922.cfm</link> 
	              <pubDate>Fri, 30 Sep 2011 05:46:44 GMT</pubDate>
                  <description><![CDATA[ With less than a year to go before the London Olympics, the August riots in Great Britain raised concerns over their impact on the Games, while others claimed this unrest signalled the end of Western civilisation altogether. A former BBC-CNBC reporter shares his three decades of experience from behind-the-lines. ]]></description> 
                  <guid>http://knowledge.insead.edu/INSEAD-knowledge-UK-riots-110922.cfm</guid> 
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              <title>Is Europe’s economic power in decline?</title> 
                  <link>http://knowledge.insead.edu/INSEAD-knowledge-is-europes-economic-power-in-decline-110725.cfm</link> 
	              <pubDate>Tue, 02 Aug 2011 09:18:18 GMT</pubDate>
                  <description><![CDATA[ The Euro zone has key strengths but INSEAD professor Amine Ouazad asks whether its future growth is being held hostage by sovereign indebtedness? ]]></description> 
                  <guid>http://knowledge.insead.edu/INSEAD-knowledge-is-europes-economic-power-in-decline-110725.cfm</guid> 
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              <title>M As in China: do politics still speak louder than money?</title> 
                  <link>http://knowledge.insead.edu/INSEAD-knowledge-MAs-in-China-110726.cfm</link> 
	              <pubDate>Tue, 02 Aug 2011 09:24:33 GMT</pubDate>
                  <description><![CDATA[ A couple of foreign M&A’s of Chinese companies look likely to go through. Is it just a chip in the Great Wall of protectionism or a real shift in policy? ]]></description> 
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	              <pubDate>Mon, 28 Nov 2011 06:07:03 GMT</pubDate>
                  <description><![CDATA[ Grain, oil and finance present a triple threat to China’s future. David Daokui Li tells Knowledge what China can do about it.  ]]></description> 
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              <title>Repairing Europe and reviving the US: The Volcker View</title> 
                  <link>http://knowledge.insead.edu/INSEAD-knowledge-paul-volcker-on-europe-and-the-US-111118.cfm</link> 
	              <pubDate>Mon, 28 Nov 2011 06:32:12 GMT</pubDate>
                  <description><![CDATA[ Paul Volcker served as Chairman of the U.S. Federal Reserve during a period of economic turbulence when his prescribed monetary policies helped tame double-digit inflation rates in the early 1980s. More recently, he served as chairman of President Barack Obama’s Economic Advisory Board from February 2009 until January 2011. A vocal advocate for banking reform, his eponymous Volcker Rule, due to come into force next year, is meant to prevent American banks from making big bets on markets with their own money or from backing private equity and hedge funds. In an interview with INSEAD Knowledge at the Lee Kuan Yew (LKY) School of Public Policy in Singapore recently, he discusses Europe’s response to the sovereign debt crisis, stagnant U.S. unemployment and shortfalls in banking legislation in the aftermath of the credit crisis.  ]]></description> 
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                  <link>http://www.inseadknowledge.com.cn/sim/INSEAD-knowledge-occupy-wall-street-120116.cfm</link> 
	              <pubDate>Fri, 20 Jan 2012 07:39:55 GMT</pubDate>
                  <description><![CDATA[ 短短三个月内，“占领华尔街”从推特上的一句口号迅速演变成一场全球性的运动。这场抗议活动首先由加拿大反消费主义杂志《广告克星》（Adbusters）发起，集会者在曼哈顿下城搭起帐篷，之后占领和抗议活动迅速蔓延到世界各地超过2500个地点，其中有游行、有逮捕、有驱逐、还有沸沸扬扬的媒体报导。在美国警方在各大城市清场驱逐示威者的当儿，美国《时代周刊》却把“示威民众”这一群体评选为“年度人物”，并把“占领华尔街”与“阿拉伯之春”相提并论，显示其对这场运动的认可。尽管批评者认为，这次运动缺乏明确的目标，无法提出像自由选举或独裁者下台这样具体明确的诉求，但《时代周刊》这份权威杂志以封面专题报导事件，已经足以证明运动迄今为止的最大成就──占据世界舆论阵地。 ]]></description> 
                  <guid>http://www.inseadknowledge.com.cn/sim/INSEAD-knowledge-occupy-wall-street-120116.cfm</guid> 
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              <title>Eastern outlook: Can Asia sustain the world?</title> 
                  <link>http://knowledge.insead.edu/INSEAD-knowledge-can-asia-sustain-the-world-120117.cfm</link> 
	              <pubDate>Fri, 20 Jan 2012 08:21:52 GMT</pubDate>
                  <description><![CDATA[ Clouded prospects in developed markets cast a shadow over outlook for trade and economy in Asia. ]]></description> 
                  <guid>http://knowledge.insead.edu/INSEAD-knowledge-can-asia-sustain-the-world-120117.cfm</guid> 
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              <title>Beyond Oil: Abu Dhabi Seeks to Diversify its Economy</title> 
                  <link>http://knowledge.insead.edu/INSEAD-knowledge-diversifying-abu-dhabis-economy-120117.cfm</link> 
	              <pubDate>Fri, 20 Jan 2012 08:30:03 GMT</pubDate>
                  <description><![CDATA[ Enormous oil revenues and a far-sighted government have powered Abu Dhabi’s economy for 40 years. But as the UAE heads into its fifth decade, it is time for private enterprise to lead the way. ]]></description> 
                  <guid>http://knowledge.insead.edu/INSEAD-knowledge-diversifying-abu-dhabis-economy-120117.cfm</guid> 
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              <title>Diamonds, discipline and development: Botswana comes of age</title> 
                  <link>http://knowledge.insead.edu/INSEAD-knowledge-botswana-comes-of-age-120222.cfm</link> 
	              <pubDate>Tue, 28 Feb 2012 11:02:26 GMT</pubDate>
                  <description><![CDATA[ Diamonds helped pull Botswana out of poverty and catapulted the country’s economic growth into the double-digits. Where does the land-locked world-class diamond producer go from here?  ]]></description> 
                  <guid>http://knowledge.insead.edu/INSEAD-knowledge-botswana-comes-of-age-120222.cfm</guid> 
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              <title>How China is managing Western hostility</title> 
                  <link>http://knowledge.insead.edu/INSEAD-knowledge-how-China-is-managing-western-hostility-120117.cfm</link> 
	              <pubDate>Fri, 20 Jan 2012 08:27:12 GMT</pubDate>
                  <description><![CDATA[ After the global financial crisis, confidence levels in the United States and other Western economies plunged. Western hostility towards China’s economic and political power is rising, based on a lot of unanswered questions. A Tsinghua University professor writes from China’s perspective.  ]]></description> 
                  <guid>http://knowledge.insead.edu/INSEAD-knowledge-how-China-is-managing-western-hostility-120117.cfm</guid> 
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              <title>What makes an emerging market?</title> 
                  <link>http://knowledge.insead.edu/INSEAD-knowledge-what-makes-an-emerging-market-120222.cfm</link> 
	              <pubDate>Tue, 28 Feb 2012 11:14:47 GMT</pubDate>
                  <description><![CDATA[ Qatar and the UAE are still waiting for an upgrade in the status of their stock markets from “frontier” to “emerging”. It could still take a while… ]]></description> 
                  <guid>http://knowledge.insead.edu/INSEAD-knowledge-what-makes-an-emerging-market-120222.cfm</guid> 
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              <title>Eurozone: State of siege</title> 
                  <link>http://knowledge.insead.edu/INSEAD-knowledge-eurozone-state-of-siege-111219.cfm</link> 
	              <pubDate>Fri, 23 Dec 2011 05:37:45 GMT</pubDate>
                  <description><![CDATA[ Could stronger ties between France and Germany get to the heart of what ails the single currency? ]]></description> 
                  <guid>http://knowledge.insead.edu/INSEAD-knowledge-eurozone-state-of-siege-111219.cfm</guid> 
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              <title>The crisis you can’t see: New rescue package needed</title> 
                  <link>http://knowledge.insead.edu/INSEAD-knowledge-the-global-crisis-you-cant-see-111216.cfm</link> 
	              <pubDate>Fri, 23 Dec 2011 05:59:54 GMT</pubDate>
                  <description><![CDATA[ At the core of the current global crises – be it the U.S., the Middle East or the EU - is the sudden and rapid erosion of safety, and the loss of the ‘known.’ The ideologies that have shaped our perceptions of the world for much of the 20th century, such as socialism, capitalism, democracy, and social justice, have all taken major blows recently. From the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989 to the protestors of Tahrir Square and Wall Street in 2011, the failure of ideologies has been marked by attacks on the institutions that represented them. ]]></description> 
                  <guid>http://knowledge.insead.edu/INSEAD-knowledge-the-global-crisis-you-cant-see-111216.cfm</guid> 
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              <title>Beyond downgrades: Seeking signs of recovery</title> 
                  <link>http://knowledge.insead.edu/INSEAD-knowledge-seeking-signs-of-recovery-120117.cfm</link> 
	              <pubDate>Fri, 20 Jan 2012 08:25:57 GMT</pubDate>
                  <description><![CDATA[ If today's economic crisis seems akin to the Great Depression, consider this: so is the caution that "the only thing we have to fear is fear itself." ]]></description> 
                  <guid>http://knowledge.insead.edu/INSEAD-knowledge-seeking-signs-of-recovery-120117.cfm</guid> 
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                  <link>http://knowledge.insead.edu/INSEAD-knowledge-pension-reform-120222.cfm</link> 
	              <pubDate>Tue, 28 Feb 2012 10:57:15 GMT</pubDate>
                  <description><![CDATA[ The baby-boomer time bomb is set to go off in the next few years, just as both public and private pension providers are trying to cut costs dramatically. Now what? ]]></description> 
                  <guid>http://knowledge.insead.edu/INSEAD-knowledge-pension-reform-120222.cfm</guid> 
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              <title>Missing elements in the inequality debate</title> 
                  <link>http://knowledge.insead.edu/INSEAD-knowledge-missing-elements-in-the-inequality-debate-120222.cfm</link> 
	              <pubDate>Tue, 28 Feb 2012 10:58:10 GMT</pubDate>
                  <description><![CDATA[ Furor over income inequality is gaining traction on campaign trails, protest movements and economic development agendas. But are they looking at the big picture?  ]]></description> 
                  <guid>http://knowledge.insead.edu/INSEAD-knowledge-missing-elements-in-the-inequality-debate-120222.cfm</guid> 
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              <title>What makes a good leader in today’s world?</title> 
                  <link>http://knowledge.insead.edu/INSEAD-knowledge-what-makes-a-good-leader-120222.cfm</link> 
	              <pubDate>Tue, 28 Feb 2012 11:01:03 GMT</pubDate>
                  <description><![CDATA[ What qualities are necessary in a global environment of economic uncertainty and political change, in which - thanks to technology – change happens at warp speed? Participants at INSEAD’s Leadership Summit Middle East in Abu Dhabi in January speak out…  ]]></description> 
                  <guid>http://knowledge.insead.edu/INSEAD-knowledge-what-makes-a-good-leader-120222.cfm</guid> 
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                  <link>http://knowledge.insead.edu/INSEAD-knowledge-education-in-abu-dhabi-111216.cfm</link> 
	              <pubDate>Fri, 23 Dec 2011 05:51:01 GMT</pubDate>
                  <description><![CDATA[ Faced with a small local workforce and the need to diversify its economy, Abu Dhabi is overhauling its entire education system and fulfilling its desire to be recognised as a regional academic powerhouse. ]]></description> 
                  <guid>http://knowledge.insead.edu/INSEAD-knowledge-education-in-abu-dhabi-111216.cfm</guid> 
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              <title>Income Inequality: How the rich got richer…and what politicians are doing about it</title> 
                  <link>http://knowledge.insead.edu/INSEAD-knowledge-income-inequality-120222.cfm</link> 
	              <pubDate>Tue, 28 Feb 2012 10:54:36 GMT</pubDate>
                  <description><![CDATA[ The gap between the rich and poor used to be the province of third world countries. Why is it an issue in developed countries these days? ]]></description> 
                  <guid>http://knowledge.insead.edu/INSEAD-knowledge-income-inequality-120222.cfm</guid> 
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              <title>Economic recovery: A long road with new horizons</title> 
                  <link>http://knowledge.insead.edu/INSEAD-knowledge-economic-recovery-120222.cfm</link> 
	              <pubDate>Tue, 28 Feb 2012 10:55:47 GMT</pubDate>
                  <description><![CDATA[ The signs of economic change are all around us, but are they harbingers of something better? INSEAD economics professor Antonio Fatas looks at a world in flux. ]]></description> 
                  <guid>http://knowledge.insead.edu/INSEAD-knowledge-economic-recovery-120222.cfm</guid> 
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              <title>The corruption trap</title> 
                  <link>http://knowledge.insead.edu/INSEAD-knowledge-the-corruption-trap-111024.cfm</link> 
	              <pubDate>Thu, 03 Nov 2011 10:35:09 GMT</pubDate>
                  <description><![CDATA[ Emerging markets are where money is to be made: pent up consumer demand, cheap labour, few regulations. But just under the surface lies the murky world of corruption, ready to derail even the most scrupulous businessperson. Now what? ]]></description> 
                  <guid>http://knowledge.insead.edu/INSEAD-knowledge-the-corruption-trap-111024.cfm</guid> 
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              <title>Can Russia end corruption?</title> 
                  <link>http://knowledge.insead.edu/INSEAD-knowledge-can-russia-end-corruption-111024.cfm</link> 
	              <pubDate>Thu, 03 Nov 2011 10:37:03 GMT</pubDate>
                  <description><![CDATA[ Bribes, payola, threats…do they have to be part of the Russian business landscape? One group is trying to find the political will to change that. ]]></description> 
                  <guid>http://knowledge.insead.edu/INSEAD-knowledge-can-russia-end-corruption-111024.cfm</guid> 
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              <title>Sub-prime mortgages and segregation: What did we gain?</title> 
                  <link>http://knowledge.insead.edu/INSEAD-knowledge-sub-prime-mortgages-and-segregation-111024.cfm</link> 
	              <pubDate>Thu, 03 Nov 2011 10:56:05 GMT</pubDate>
                  <description><![CDATA[ Sub-prime mortgages were supposed to put an end to segregated neighbourhoods by allowing affordable housing to more people. But a new study shows that better access to mortgages leads to more - not less - racial segregation. ]]></description> 
                  <guid>http://knowledge.insead.edu/INSEAD-knowledge-sub-prime-mortgages-and-segregation-111024.cfm</guid> 
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              <title>Storm clouds in the Pacific</title> 
                  <link>http://knowledge.insead.edu/INSEAD-knowledge-storm-clouds-over-asia-111118.cfm</link> 
	              <pubDate>Mon, 28 Nov 2011 06:04:54 GMT</pubDate>
                  <description><![CDATA[ In 2009, government spending in China and the rest of Asia helped bail out the West when the markets tanked and the economy followed suit. Today, Asia has its own problems and may not be able to carry the West through the second wave of economic times. ]]></description> 
                  <guid>http://knowledge.insead.edu/INSEAD-knowledge-storm-clouds-over-asia-111118.cfm</guid> 
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              <title>Emiratisation: The way forward?</title> 
                  <link>http://knowledge.insead.edu/INSEAD-knowledge-UAE-emiratisation-programme-110725.cfm</link> 
	              <pubDate>Tue, 02 Aug 2011 08:41:28 GMT</pubDate>
                  <description><![CDATA[ Unrest in the region has accelerated the UAE’s Emeritisation programme. But Emiratis may be struggling with motivation.  ]]></description> 
                  <guid>http://knowledge.insead.edu/INSEAD-knowledge-UAE-emiratisation-programme-110725.cfm</guid> 
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              <title>What kind of recession is this?</title> 
                  <link>http://knowledge.insead.edu/INSEAD-knowledge-rx-for-the-global-economy-110922.cfm</link> 
	              <pubDate>Fri, 30 Sep 2011 05:11:09 GMT</pubDate>
                  <description><![CDATA[ Not since the Great Depression has the world economy seen such a perfect storm of failed policies, rising unemployment and stalled growth. Many use the “R” word … but is that “recovery” or “recession”? ]]></description> 
                  <guid>http://knowledge.insead.edu/INSEAD-knowledge-rx-for-the-global-economy-110922.cfm</guid> 
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              <title>Can the economic crisis encourage European unity?</title> 
                  <link>http://knowledge.insead.edu/INSEAD-knowledge-economic-crisis-and-european-unity-110922.cfm</link> 
	              <pubDate>Fri, 30 Sep 2011 05:14:14 GMT</pubDate>
                  <description><![CDATA[ When Jean Monnet said the European Union would be drawn together in moments of crisis, he was most likely thinking of martial threats. Today’s economic crisis is nearly as damaging as past wars have been, but can this crisis foster unity within the EU and between the EU, and its long-standing allies?  ]]></description> 
                  <guid>http://knowledge.insead.edu/INSEAD-knowledge-economic-crisis-and-european-unity-110922.cfm</guid> 
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              <title>Market moves: Not what you learned in B-School</title> 
                  <link>http://knowledge.insead.edu/INSEAD-knowledge-market-moves-110921.cfm</link> 
	              <pubDate>Fri, 30 Sep 2011 05:21:52 GMT</pubDate>
                  <description><![CDATA[ Worried about your stocks portfolio? Amid today’s wild market gyrations, it can be hard to get a grip on what, exactly, causes moves in share prices. Here are some price-movers that are decoupled from the economy, but still have an impact.<br>
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                  <guid>http://knowledge.insead.edu/INSEAD-knowledge-market-moves-110921.cfm</guid> 
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              <title>Leadership in crisis – where are the heroes?</title> 
                  <link>http://knowledge.insead.edu/INSEAD-knowledge-leadership-crisis-110922.cfm</link> 
	              <pubDate>Fri, 30 Sep 2011 05:29:16 GMT</pubDate>
                  <description><![CDATA[ In a globalised world dominated by financial woes, where are the leaders who will be our salvation? Three INSEAD professors give their views on the problems these leaders face and why they may be failing.  ]]></description> 
                  <guid>http://knowledge.insead.edu/INSEAD-knowledge-leadership-crisis-110922.cfm</guid> 
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              <title>Egypt in transition: bloodshed and the brotherhood</title> 
                  <link>http://knowledge.insead.edu/INSEAD-knowledge-egypt-in-transition-120222.cfm</link> 
	              <pubDate>Tue, 28 Feb 2012 11:04:20 GMT</pubDate>
                  <description><![CDATA[ Can Egypt’s secularists accept an Islamic state? One human rights activist and former Mubarak minister says one year on, many questions remain and the revolution is far from over. ]]></description> 
                  <guid>http://knowledge.insead.edu/INSEAD-knowledge-egypt-in-transition-120222.cfm</guid> 
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                  <link>http://knowledge.insead.edu/ILSResponsibleLeaders080504.cfm</link> 
	              <pubDate>Thu, 08 May 2008 04:56:41 GMT</pubDate>
                  <description><![CDATA[ Are business leaders really buying into sustainable development? According to McKinsey, only 20 per cent of executives feel that sustainability is part of their responsibility.  ]]></description> 
                  <guid>http://knowledge.insead.edu/ILSResponsibleLeaders080504.cfm</guid> 
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                  <link>http://knowledge.insead.edu/INSEAD-knowledge-China-sharpens-Africa-focus-110627.cfm</link> 
	              <pubDate>Mon, 04 Jul 2011 04:23:20 GMT</pubDate>
                  <description><![CDATA[ Looking at the bigger picture of Africa’s improving economic fortunes in the past decade, it is clear that China’s influence in Africa has been largely a success story.  ]]></description> 
                  <guid>http://knowledge.insead.edu/INSEAD-knowledge-China-sharpens-Africa-focus-110627.cfm</guid> 
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              <title>Europe: a global power with global reach?</title> 
                  <link>http://knowledge.insead.edu/insead-knowledge-europe-a-global-power-with-global-reach-110119.cfm</link> 
	              <pubDate>Mon, 07 Feb 2011 04:10:01 GMT</pubDate>
                  <description><![CDATA[ All EU assessments appear to indicate that ‘business as usual’ points to a downward track of growth at home and reduced influence abroad. But if we wish for something better, then perhaps we should start by thinking differently about Europe, and then matching our thoughts with our actions, writes INSEAD emeritus professor Jonathan Story. ]]></description> 
                  <guid>http://knowledge.insead.edu/insead-knowledge-europe-a-global-power-with-global-reach-110119.cfm</guid> 
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              <title>Setting the rules of the game: corporate governance and the banking sector</title> 
                  <link>http://knowledge.insead.edu/corporate-governance-banks-101213.cfm?vid=502</link> 
	              <pubDate>Mon, 10 Jan 2011 07:37:23 GMT</pubDate>
                  <description><![CDATA[ As the financial crisis morphs into a sovereign debt crisis, the corporate governance of banks is back under the spotlight. Whose interests should bank boards be serving? And who should be monitoring what banks do? ]]></description> 
                  <guid>http://knowledge.insead.edu/corporate-governance-banks-101213.cfm?vid=502</guid> 
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              <title>It’s a two-tiered economic recovery, OECD Economic Outlook shows</title> 
                  <link>http://knowledge.insead.edu/INSEAD-knowledge-OECD-economic-outlook-2011-110525.cfm</link> 
	              <pubDate>Wed, 01 Jun 2011 05:35:16 GMT</pubDate>
                  <description><![CDATA[ The global economy is recovering but it’s going to take some hard work to keep it going, according to Pier Carlo Padoan, the OECD’s chief economist. ]]></description> 
                  <guid>http://knowledge.insead.edu/INSEAD-knowledge-OECD-economic-outlook-2011-110525.cfm</guid> 
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              <title>The European Union: One crisis too many?</title> 
                  <link>http://knowledge.insead.edu/INSEAD-knowledge-one-crisis-too-many-for-the-EU-051125.cfm</link> 
	              <pubDate>Wed, 01 Jun 2011 05:39:45 GMT</pubDate>
                  <description><![CDATA[ The arrest of former IMF chief Dominique Strauss-Kahn in New York is the latest in a long list of assaults on the EU and the Euro. INSEAD political science professor Douglas Webber opines on the status and future of it all.  ]]></description> 
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              <title>Gallup polls take stock of the Muslim world</title> 
                  <link>http://knowledge.insead.edu/INSEAD-knowledge-gallup-polls-dalia-mogahed-on-the-middle-east-110322.cf</link> 
	              <pubDate>Wed, 30 Mar 2011 11:04:17 GMT</pubDate>
                  <description><![CDATA[ It’s not just the Arab world that is changing; but also people’s perception of the region.  Dalia Mogahead, Executive Director of the Gallup Center for Muslim Studies, speaking at INSEAD’s Abu Dhabi campus, explains. ]]></description> 
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              <title>Real estate in the UAE: Moving from speculation to solid value?</title> 
                  <link>http://knowledge.insead.edu/INSEAD-knowledge-real-estate-in-the-UAE-110322.cfm</link> 
	              <pubDate>Wed, 30 Mar 2011 11:05:40 GMT</pubDate>
                  <description><![CDATA[ The UAE finds itself caught between being the centre of economic opportunity in the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) and at the same time surrounded by the political turmoil in the Middle East. Elaine Jones, CEO of Asteco Property Management, assesses the opportunities and impediments for UAE’s real estate recovery. ]]></description> 
                  <guid>http://knowledge.insead.edu/INSEAD-knowledge-real-estate-in-the-UAE-110322.cfm</guid> 
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              <title>China’s progress: can it breach the Great Wall?</title> 
                  <link>http://knowledge.insead.edu/ilsa-china-outlook-101213.cfm?vid=508</link> 
	              <pubDate>Mon, 03 Jan 2011 04:26:41 GMT</pubDate>
                  <description><![CDATA[ With China's ascent as the world's second-largest economy, it may just be a matter of time before it eclipses the United States in productivity. But can it evolve to become a high-income, consumption-driven economy like the US? ]]></description> 
                  <guid>http://knowledge.insead.edu/ilsa-china-outlook-101213.cfm?vid=508</guid> 
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              <title>Hard times for a talent hub</title> 
                  <link>http://knowledge.insead.edu/Hardtimesforatalenthub090319.cfm?vid=190</link> 
	              <pubDate>Mon, 30 Mar 2009 09:21:32 GMT</pubDate>
                  <description><![CDATA[ Like many countries around the world, Singapore's economy has been hit by the global downturn. It will be a stern test for the city-state's government as the recession bites and more Singaporeans lose their jobs, especially as the authorities have been encouraging foreign 'talent' to come to live in the city-state. ]]></description> 
                  <guid>http://knowledge.insead.edu/Hardtimesforatalenthub090319.cfm?vid=190</guid> 
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              <title>The upside of hard times</title> 
                  <link>http://knowledge.insead.edu/BillMagillOp-ed090323.cfm </link> 
	              <pubDate>Mon, 30 Mar 2009 09:18:57 GMT</pubDate>
                  <description><![CDATA[ This could be the best year of your life; a year of discovery, correction, clearance, and enlightenment. 2009 could be the year that started all wrong and ended so right. The year things came right. Twenty years from now, when sharing life's lessons over a bottle of wine with friends, you might reflect on 2009 as your year of real change; that barrier year between who you were and who you became. ]]></description> 
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                  <link>http://knowledge.insead.edu/USeconomy090320.cfm?vid=196</link> 
	              <pubDate>Mon, 23 Mar 2009 09:29:42 GMT</pubDate>
                  <description><![CDATA[ Although the current global economic gloom continues to cause sleepless nights for many CEOs, a worldwide depression is now “very unlikely” and it’s a “likely scenario” that the US economy could start to recover from its recession by the end of this year, says Ilian Mihov, INSEAD professor of economics ]]></description> 
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	              <pubDate>Thu, 30 Jul 2009 08:53:22 GMT</pubDate>
                  <description><![CDATA[ Infrastructure development will drive India’s economic growth in the next decade. That’s according to Kamal Nath, the country’s Road Transport and Highways Minister.<br>
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              <title>Arab youths, revolutions, and the rise of the ‘second society’</title> 
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                  <description><![CDATA[ The patterns of revolutions tend to be similar, focusing on the rise and fall of their leaders, a plunge into lawlessness, and finally a new order. Today’s movement in the Arab world is different. Sami Mahroum, Director of INSEAD’s Innovation & Policy Initiative in Abu Dhabi, explains why. ]]></description> 
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              <title>Unveiling Latin America's economic success</title> 
                  <link>http://knowledge.insead.edu/LatinAmericaeconomy090323.cfm?vid=200</link> 
	              <pubDate>Wed, 15 Apr 2009 06:10:08 GMT</pubDate>
                  <description><![CDATA[ A lot of attention has been focused on the remarkable economic success of China, India and other Asian countries. So much so that the rise of Latin American companies as major players on the international economic scene has almost gone unnoticed.<br>
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              <title>Crisis, Clear skies and China opportunities</title> 
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	              <pubDate>Fri, 11 Sep 2009 10:48:26 GMT</pubDate>
                  <description><![CDATA[ With every crisis comes a silver lining. While not everyone subscribes to that belief, Asian business leaders speaking at this year’s Bloomberg Leadership Forum in Hong Kong are certainly convinced of its validity.  ]]></description> 
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                  <link>http://knowledge.insead.edu/TacklingEuropeUnemploymentCrisis090421.cfm</link> 
	              <pubDate>Tue, 21 Apr 2009 09:39:22 GMT</pubDate>
                  <description><![CDATA[ New and better solutions are needed to tackle the worsening unemployment crisis in Europe, which rose to a three-year high of 8.5 per cent in January. <br>
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However, the European Union’s Lisbon Strategy (which aimed to turn the EU into a dynamic knowledge-based economy by 2010) and ‘flexicurity’ should form the cornerstone of such solutions, said speakers at this year’s European Business Summit (EBS). The EU’s Lisbon Strategy aims to improve its economic competitiveness, while ‘flexicurity’ aims to support an optimal balance between labour market flexibility and security for employers and employees.<br>
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              <title>SMEs in times of crisis: the need for speed</title> 
                  <link>http://knowledge.insead.edu/contents/SMEsincrisis090420.cfm</link> 
	              <pubDate>Tue, 21 Apr 2009 09:40:57 GMT</pubDate>
                  <description><![CDATA[ Small- and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) matter; and without a healthy SME sector, economic recovery is unthinkable and Europe’s future prosperity and competitiveness are at stake. That’s the view of Arndt G. Kirchhoff, CEO of Kirchhoff Automotive and chairman of the SME Committee of business lobby group BusinessEurope. <br>
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              <title>Sustaining Europe's ambitions: sharper strategies, medium-term targets necessary</title> 
                  <link>http://knowledge.insead.edu/sustainingeuropesambition090420.cfm</link> 
	              <pubDate>Tue, 21 Apr 2009 09:42:17 GMT</pubDate>
                  <description><![CDATA[ Europe needs to be a lot more focused as to what it wants to lead in, to sustain its ambitions. So should it be leading in terms of policy, markets, supply and skills? <br>
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“It boils down to where we want to be sharp about excellence. We need to recognise that Europe is average in many of these things; we need true excellence and focus on more quality rather than quantity,” says Mark Spelman, an INSEAD alumnus (MBA'83J) who is Global Head of Strategy, Accenture, Chair, Executive Council fo AmCham EU. ]]></description> 
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              <title>How Obama used social networking tools to win</title> 
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	              <pubDate>Fri, 10 Jul 2009 11:04:13 GMT</pubDate>
                  <description><![CDATA[ In his bid to help Barack Obama become the 44th President of the United States, Scott Goodstein spearheaded the use of new social networking and mobile media platforms, harnessing technological innovations to expand the audience base for the Obama campaign. <br>
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                  <link>http://knowledge.insead.edu/TheEconomicGrowthEngine090716.cfm?vid=276</link> 
	              <pubDate>Tue, 21 Jul 2009 03:47:20 GMT</pubDate>
                  <description><![CDATA[ It has been a key driving force, powering economies since the Industrial Revolution, yet it continues to take a backseat to other heavily-touted engines of growth, most recently consumer spending. ]]></description> 
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              <title>Why free trade, not protectionism, is the answer</title> 
                  <link>http://knowledge.insead.edu/EBSprotectionism090421.cfm</link> 
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                  <description><![CDATA[ The completion of the Doha Round of global free trade agreements is central to resolving the current global economic crisis. Speakers at this year’s European Business Summit stressed that governments should help enable global free trade to rejuvenate economic growth, rather than turn to protectionist measures. <br>
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              <title>How to avert a financial crisis: why anticipation and management go a long way</title> 
                  <link>http://knowledge.insead.edu/AvertFinancialCrisis090716.cfm?vid=275</link> 
	              <pubDate>Tue, 21 Jul 2009 03:49:15 GMT</pubDate>
                  <description><![CDATA[ Companies are overreacting to the economic downturn but, had they been better prepared in the first place, they wouldn’t find themselves in such a fix. This is according to Ludo Van der Heyden, INSEAD Professor of Technology and Operations Management.   ]]></description> 
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              <title>Re-skilling Europe for the new global knowledge economy</title> 
                  <link>http://knowledge.insead.edu/EBSreporto090422.cfm?vid=221</link> 
	              <pubDate>Fri, 24 Apr 2009 12:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
                  <description><![CDATA[ Europe today is suffering from a skills shortage, made even worse by the economic crisis. Over the past decade, many business leaders have stressed that Europe is simply not producing, attracting, or retaining sufficient numbers of scientists, engineers and IT specialists to meet the requirements of its industries, and the ambition of its ‘Lisbon Agenda’ - that is, to lead the global knowledge economy. <br>
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              <title>Barroso makes the case for conclusion of Doha Round</title> 
                  <link>http://knowledge.insead.edu/ManuelBarrosoonDohaRound090422.cfm?vid=222</link> 
	              <pubDate>Fri, 24 Apr 2009 12:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
                  <description><![CDATA[ The world should embrace free trade and repudiate protectionism, urges José Manuel Barroso, European Commission president, adding that completing the Doha Round on global trade would send a “very important signal” that free trade is vital in lifting the international economy from the current deep recession.<br>
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              <title>Planning for the unthinkable</title> 
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	              <pubDate>Thu, 13 Aug 2009 03:59:18 GMT</pubDate>
                  <description><![CDATA[ We’ve been so focused on the financial crisis that we’ve neglected to pay attention to other issues, which, if left on the backburner, could upset the status quo. That’s the view of futurist and business strategist Peter Schwartz.<br>
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              <title>Helping countries emerge from the economic crisis: a World Bank perspective</title> 
                  <link>http://knowledge.insead.edu/WorldBankperspective090527.cfm?vid=252</link> 
	              <pubDate>Thu, 28 May 2009 03:29:40 GMT</pubDate>
                  <description><![CDATA[ Even though world leaders are talking up signs of economic “green shoots”, it’s still too early to tell whether the global economic crisis is near a bottom or even whether the economic decline is slowing, says Shigeo Katsu, Vice President for Europe and Central Asia at the World Bank. ]]></description> 
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              <title>A mantra of business success</title> 
                  <link>http://knowledge.insead.edu/business-success-sorrell-wpp-090729.cfm?vid=284</link> 
	              <pubDate>Wed, 29 Jul 2009 12:13:29 GMT</pubDate>
                  <description><![CDATA[ For Sir Martin Sorrell, Group CEO of marketing communications services giant WPP, the key to future business success lies in a short and simple mantra: new markets, new media, and consumer insight.<br>
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                  <link>http://knowledge.insead.edu/Dancingwithchance090504.cfm</link> 
	              <pubDate>Mon, 04 May 2009 10:15:19 GMT</pubDate>
                  <description><![CDATA[ Looking back, it may seem obvious that there was insufficient risk management in the financial industry. In a new book called ‘Dance with chance, making luck work for you’ authors Spyros Makridakis, Robin Hogarth and Anil Gaba suggest that while there are events that you can’t anticipate, there are better ways of dealing with risk.  ]]></description> 
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                  <link>http://knowledge.insead.edu/Managinguncertainty090504.cfm?vid=238</link> 
	              <pubDate>Mon, 04 May 2009 10:22:24 GMT</pubDate>
                  <description><![CDATA[ Why are we constantly surprised by the emergence of crises such as the current financial meltdown, and what are the lessons that we can apply when tackling these? ]]></description> 
                  <guid>http://knowledge.insead.edu/Managinguncertainty090504.cfm?vid=238</guid> 
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              <title>Leadercast: Greg Case, CEO of Aon</title> 
                  <link>http://knowledge.insead.edu/LeadercastwithGregCaseofAon090504.cfm?vid=239</link> 
	              <pubDate>Mon, 04 May 2009 10:24:07 GMT</pubDate>
                  <description><![CDATA[ When Greg Case, CEO of Aon, spoke at the INSEAD Leadership Summit in Europe two years ago, he warned that the magnitude and complexity of risk in the world today were increasing. ]]></description> 
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              <title>In defence of hedge funds</title> 
                  <link>http://knowledge.insead.edu/Indefenceofhedgefunds090504.cfm?vid=82</link> 
	              <pubDate>Mon, 04 May 2009 10:28:53 GMT</pubDate>
                  <description><![CDATA[ Hedge funds have come in for scrutiny of late, particularly for their role in the financial crisis. According to Christopher Fawcett, CEO of Fauchier Partners, which manages hedge fund and alternative investment portfolios, hedge funds have become a scapegoat as they are an easy target. ]]></description> 
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              <title>Green Shoots in the Trenches?</title> 
                  <link>http://knowledge.insead.edu/GreenShootsintheTrenches090716.cfm</link> 
	              <pubDate>Fri, 17 Jul 2009 05:20:22 GMT</pubDate>
                  <description><![CDATA[ Economists look at the Dow Jones Industrial Average hovering over the 8,000 points level, as well as at signs of a pick-up in retail sales and housing starts, and see “green shoots.” Union leaders look at unemployment nearing 10 per cent, escalating bankruptcies and a middle class facing poverty and see quite another picture.   ]]></description> 
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              <title>Mutually dependent: Russia should be a partner in the Western Alliance</title> 
                  <link>http://knowledge.insead.edu/RussiashouldbeapartnerintheWesternAlliance090504.cfm?vid=233</link> 
	              <pubDate>Mon, 04 May 2009 10:37:35 GMT</pubDate>
                  <description><![CDATA[ Should Russia join NATO? Sixty years ago, the trans-Atlantic military alliance was created to protect Western Europe and the United States from Soviet aggression. Now a leading expert on European security says the West should strengthen ties with the Soviet Union’s successor, including membership in the 26-member alliance.<br>
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                  <link>http://knowledge.insead.edu/HealthCare090529.cfm</link> 
	              <pubDate>Fri, 29 May 2009 06:14:31 GMT</pubDate>
                  <description><![CDATA[ It has been called the most significant innovation in US medical financing since the Second World War. Introduced in 1983, the Diagnosis-Related Groups (DRGs) system for classifying patients gave healthcare providers and payers a tool to manage patient care and slow the rising cost of health care. Since then, DRGs, or patient classification systems (PCSs) as they are known outside the US, have caught the attention of health care policymakers around the world.<br>
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              <title>'Great Wall' stands in the way of China's economic ascent</title> 
                  <link>http://knowledge.insead.edu/MihovonChina090504.cfm?vid=243</link> 
	              <pubDate>Mon, 04 May 2009 10:46:11 GMT</pubDate>
                  <description><![CDATA[ Institutional inadequacies could prevent China from achieving its full economic potential despite its breath-taking growth in the past decade.  ]]></description> 
                  <guid>http://knowledge.insead.edu/MihovonChina090504.cfm?vid=243</guid> 
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              <title>Does the world need a new global reserve currency?</title> 
                  <link>http://knowledge.insead.edu/economy-currency-martin-wolf-091217.cfm?vid=361</link> 
	              <pubDate>Thu, 17 Dec 2009 08:46:04 GMT</pubDate>
                  <description><![CDATA[ A new global currency should replace the US dollar as the international reserve currency, as the long-term deterioration of America’s economy and the greenback is fueling a “currency-regime crisis”, says Martin Wolf, chief economics commentator of the Financial Times.   ]]></description> 
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              <title>Personal view: some advice to climate scientists on ethics from a finance professor</title> 
                  <link>http://knowledge.insead.edu/environment-climate-scientists-ethics-091217.cfm</link> 
	              <pubDate>Fri, 18 Dec 2009 09:33:38 GMT</pubDate>
                  <description><![CDATA[ Climate scientists from the Climate Research Unit (CRU) at the University of East Anglia have come under fire for alleged data manipulation following the release of thousands of emails and documents. As a result of ‘ClimateGate,’ some of the climatologists involved have stepped aside or are under investigation by their university.  ]]></description> 
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              <title>Fighting for trade: China and the threat of protectionism</title> 
                  <link>http://knowledge.insead.edu/economy-china-fighting-for-trade-100225.cfm</link> 
	              <pubDate>Thu, 25 Feb 2010 07:53:36 GMT</pubDate>
                  <description><![CDATA[ In a global economic environment still reeling from the financial crisis and a vast contraction in world trade, the fight between countries for market share – and ultimately revenue – has become even more intense. Governments have faced pressure from their constituents to save and create jobs and wealth, and in the complex system governing commerce between countries, desperate times seem to have inspired desperate protectionist measures. Having in 2009 become the world's leading exporting nation, built on a decades-long booming economy very successful in gaining global market share by means of cheaper exports, China has reason enough to fear protectionism.   <br>
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              <title>Book review: The Indian Renaissance</title> 
                  <link>http://knowledge.insead.edu/book-review-indian-renaissance-091218.cfm</link> 
	              <pubDate>Fri, 18 Dec 2009 09:46:04 GMT</pubDate>
                  <description><![CDATA[ Economics examiners must love China and India. What a perfect pair of rising economic Asian giants to use for a compare-and-contrast question for their students. A thousand years ago, both countries were civilised and technologically advanced while Europeans huddled in draughty castles and a gnawed meat off bones. Both countries missed out on the Industrial Revolution, and seemed bewildered by the rise of the barbarian West. But they succumbed to its domination, shook it off in the 1940s, then embraced socialism, before reforming their economies along market lines to power ahead in the 1990s and the new millennium.<br>
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              <title>Poorly Made in China: a reality check</title> 
                  <link>http://knowledge.insead.edu/contents/manufacturing-china-midler-100312.cfm</link> 
	              <pubDate>Fri, 12 Mar 2010 07:17:20 GMT</pubDate>
                  <description><![CDATA[ Despite being hailed as ‘the world’s workshop’, China’s reputation of being a reliable and responsible manufacturer is far from world-class. In his new book ‘Poorly Made in China’, intermediary and author Paul Midler exposes the pitfalls of manufacturing in China, debunking several myths in the process. ]]></description> 
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              <title>Climate change and business: the momentum stalls</title> 
                  <link>http://knowledge.insead.edu/environment-copenhagen-eiu-study-100315.cfm</link> 
	              <pubDate>Tue, 16 Mar 2010 10:36:15 GMT</pubDate>
                  <description><![CDATA[ While climate change has been in the headlines in recent months due to the Copenhagen talks and concerns about alleged data manipulation, businesses don’t appear to be making much headway in terms of carbon reduction. That’s according to a new EIU study due out later this month, which will reveal that net gains by businesses have been close to zero since last year. ]]></description> 
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              <title>Copenhagen: what should investors be demanding from companies?</title> 
                  <link>http://knowledge.insead.edu/environment-copenhagen-global-deal-091203.cfm</link> 
	              <pubDate>Thu, 03 Dec 2009 11:11:59 GMT</pubDate>
                  <description><![CDATA[ The outcome of the Copenhagen climate conference may have disappointed some business leaders and may not be the ‘Global Deal’ that many, including the UK’s Carbon Trust, had been hoping for, but it is being touted as another small step forward in the long process towards reducing carbon emissions. <br>
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                  <link>http://knowledge.insead.edu/economy-china-mining-091009.cfm</link> 
	              <pubDate>Fri, 09 Oct 2009 12:19:02 GMT</pubDate>
                  <description><![CDATA[ The last quarter of 2008 saw the end of a boom in the global mining industry. While some commodity analysts foresaw the collapse of mining and metal prices, very few  predicted the speed of the declines or their steep descent. Record prices, net profits and expansion plans in the first half of the year suddenly gave way to falling commodity prices, reduced profits, production cuts and mine closures in the last quarter of the year and the first half of 2009.  ]]></description> 
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                  <link>http://knowledge.insead.edu/economics-politics-stateholder091124.cfm?vid=348</link> 
	              <pubDate>Tue, 24 Nov 2009 10:25:52 GMT</pubDate>
                  <description><![CDATA[ The amount of government capital injected into the so-called “private economy” since mid-2008 is unprecedented. The United States and United Kingdom led the way, but many other countries drifted into the same uncharted waters. So now what?   ]]></description> 
                  <guid>http://knowledge.insead.edu/economics-politics-stateholder091124.cfm?vid=348</guid> 
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              <title>Davos in Delhi: how India figures in the global agenda</title> 
                  <link>http://knowledge.insead.edu/economics-india-economic-summit-091124.cfm</link> 
	              <pubDate>Tue, 24 Nov 2009 10:27:04 GMT</pubDate>
                  <description><![CDATA[ The global economic recovery is for real and is being led by emerging countries such as India. That was one of the two key messages from the recently-held India Economic Summit here, jointly hosted by the World Economic Forum (WEF) and the Confederation of Indian Industry (CII).  ]]></description> 
                  <guid>http://knowledge.insead.edu/economics-india-economic-summit-091124.cfm</guid> 
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              <title>Who supervises the board? In Indonesia, that’s the job of another board</title> 
                  <link>http://knowledge.insead.edu/politics-indonesia-board-091125.cfm?vid=349</link> 
	              <pubDate>Thu, 26 Nov 2009 04:39:45 GMT</pubDate>
                  <description><![CDATA[ Indonesia’s two-tier board system works well and could be a model for other countries. That’s according to the president of the supervisory board of commissioners at major telco PT Telekomunikasi, Tanri Abeng, who says he’s “a little bit critical” of the single-board system used elsewhere. ]]></description> 
                  <guid>http://knowledge.insead.edu/politics-indonesia-board-091125.cfm?vid=349</guid> 
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              <title>Government, business and labour: working together for a successful Singapore amid the economic downturn</title> 
                  <link>http://knowledge.insead.edu/economy-singapore-tripartism-091125.cfm?vid=340</link> 
	              <pubDate>Thu, 26 Nov 2009 04:41:27 GMT</pubDate>
                  <description><![CDATA[ While many countries are seeing unemployment rates rising sharply, Singapore’s has only gone up by about one per cent over the past year to 3.4 per cent and remains one of the lowest in the world, despite the global slowdown. ]]></description> 
                  <guid>http://knowledge.insead.edu/economy-singapore-tripartism-091125.cfm?vid=340</guid> 
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              <title>A tale of two banks: hallmarks of the changing financial landscape</title> 
                  <link>http://knowledge.insead.edu/finance-insead-summit-091124.cfm?vid=346</link> 
	              <pubDate>Thu, 26 Nov 2009 04:42:54 GMT</pubDate>
                  <description><![CDATA[ It would be difficult to find two financial institutions more indicative of the plus and minus sides of the financial tsunami that hit the world of banking this year: on the one hand, ING, the venerable international Dutch bank, forced to go to the government for a 10 billion euro bailout and now facing public evisceration at the hands of EU regulators. On the other hand, Standard Chartered Bank, a bastion of banking in Asia since the era of British imperial rule.  ]]></description> 
                  <guid>http://knowledge.insead.edu/finance-insead-summit-091124.cfm?vid=346</guid> 
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              <title>‘Incredible consensus’ for regulatory reforms among G20, but political will weakening</title> 
                  <link>http://knowledge.insead.edu/economy-regulatory-reforms-091125.cfm?vid=341</link> 
	              <pubDate>Thu, 26 Nov 2009 04:44:45 GMT</pubDate>
                  <description><![CDATA[ In the face of the impending global financial meltdown a year ago, world leaders found clarity: financial regulatory frameworks needed to be overhauled. ]]></description> 
                  <guid>http://knowledge.insead.edu/economy-regulatory-reforms-091125.cfm?vid=341</guid> 
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              <title>What’s next after Copenhagen?</title> 
                  <link>http://knowledge.insead.edu/environment-copenhagen-conference-091203.cfm?vid=352</link> 
	              <pubDate>Thu, 03 Dec 2009 10:22:21 GMT</pubDate>
                  <description><![CDATA[ Was there too much riding on the United Nations Climate Change Conference which concluded in Copenhagen at the weekend? ]]></description> 
                  <guid>http://knowledge.insead.edu/environment-copenhagen-conference-091203.cfm?vid=352</guid> 
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                  <link>http://knowledge.insead.edu/leadership-UAE-education-100125.cfm</link> 
	              <pubDate>Fri, 29 Jan 2010 03:05:35 GMT</pubDate>
                  <description><![CDATA[ In an interview for INSEAD Knowledge, UAE Minister of Higher Education and Scientific Research, Sheikh Nahayan Mabarak Al Nahayan talks to INSEAD Professor Stephen Mezias about the challenges facing education in the Gulf and about INSEAD's role in the region. <br>
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	              <pubDate>Wed, 16 Dec 2009 08:04:42 GMT</pubDate>
                  <description><![CDATA[ The author of a new book on China warns that if 2010 is another difficult year for the US economy, Washington could “come under a lot of pressure to impose tariffs on Chinese products.”<br>
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                  <guid>http://knowledge.insead.edu/economy-china-credit-crisis-091215.cfm?vid=357</guid> 
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              <title>China faces an economic crossroads</title> 
                  <link>http://knowledge.insead.edu/economy-china-stephen-roach-091216.cfm</link> 
	              <pubDate>Wed, 16 Dec 2009 08:06:00 GMT</pubDate>
                  <description><![CDATA[ With the collapse of external demand in the wake of the global financial crisis, China needs to reduce its dependence on exports and investments, and shift towards internal private consumption, says Stephen Roach, a leading economist and Hong Kong-based chairman of Morgan Stanley Asia. ]]></description> 
                  <guid>http://knowledge.insead.edu/economy-china-stephen-roach-091216.cfm</guid> 
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              <title>Gaining a competitive advantage with knowledge-based skills</title> 
                  <link>http://knowledge.insead.edu/economics-europe-skills-100319.cfm?vid=399</link> 
	              <pubDate>Fri, 19 Mar 2010 07:31:45 GMT</pubDate>
                  <description><![CDATA[ The financial crisis has highlighted deficiencies in knowledge-based skills in Europe and unless they’re tackled now, the region could get left behind. That was one of the key messages from an event held recently at INSEAD’s Europe campus in France. ]]></description> 
                  <guid>http://knowledge.insead.edu/economics-europe-skills-100319.cfm?vid=399</guid> 
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              <title>Why, who and where? Chinese OFDI on the world stage</title> 
                  <link>http://knowledge.insead.edu/economy-china-ofdi-091012.cfm</link> 
	              <pubDate>Tue, 13 Oct 2009 12:15:59 GMT</pubDate>
                  <description><![CDATA[ The phenomenon of Chinese companies going global has become a defining feature of China’s current stage of integration with the global economy. While China remains a minor player in terms of global Outbound Foreign Direct Investment (OFDI) flows, the financial crisis has afforded some of its largest state-owned enterprises, or SOEs, unprecedented opportunities for landmark acquisitions. In the ten months after Lehman Brothers became the defining casualty of the financial crisis, Chinese bidders announced 50 outbound offers worth US$30 million or more each, totalling about $50 billion. <br>
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                  <guid>http://knowledge.insead.edu/economy-china-ofdi-091012.cfm</guid> 
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              <title>A ‘naive response’ to economic growth?</title> 
                  <link>http://knowledge.insead.edu/economics-economic-recovery-100127.cfm</link> 
	              <pubDate>Fri, 29 Jan 2010 03:11:11 GMT</pubDate>
                  <description><![CDATA[ With many economies expected to begin posting growth again this year, the group executive director and CEO of wholesale banking at Standard Chartered Bank has some words of caution: accepting GDP figures at face value “would be a naïve response”. <br>
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                  <guid>http://knowledge.insead.edu/economics-economic-recovery-100127.cfm</guid> 
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                  <link>http://knowledge.insead.edu/economy-china-real-estate-100407.cfm</link> 
	              <pubDate>Wed, 07 Apr 2010 05:53:18 GMT</pubDate>
                  <description><![CDATA[ Amid fears of a property bubble in China where real estate prices have risen for nine consecutive months, Bill Hunt, former president of Century 21 China Real Estate, remains sanguine that the bubble will not burst. ]]></description> 
                  <guid>http://knowledge.insead.edu/economy-china-real-estate-100407.cfm</guid> 
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              <title>Smart economics: investing in working women</title> 
                  <link>http://knowledge.insead.edu/economics-working-women-100127.cfm</link> 
	              <pubDate>Fri, 29 Jan 2010 03:22:04 GMT</pubDate>
                  <description><![CDATA[ Working women make up a fast-growing percentage of the global workforce, which is now estimated at 46 per cent of the total. In emerging markets, most working women are self-employed, earning low and irregular incomes.<br>
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                  <guid>http://knowledge.insead.edu/economics-working-women-100127.cfm</guid> 
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              <title>Green Technology: China Means Business</title> 
                  <link>http://knowledge.insead.edu/social-innovation-greening-china-091009.cfm</link> 
	              <pubDate>Fri, 09 Oct 2009 12:20:38 GMT</pubDate>
                  <description><![CDATA[ A substantial portion of the Chinese government’s stimulus package, more than a third in fact, has been earmarked for projects that would either, directly or indirectly, have a positive environmental impact. Are these green initiatives indicative of a broader strategic stance on the part of the Chinese government on environmental issues, or just a temporary boost to China’s economy and the country’s image?<br>
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                  <guid>http://knowledge.insead.edu/social-innovation-greening-china-091009.cfm</guid> 
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              <title>Shining a light on China</title> 
                  <link>http://knowledge.insead.edu/economy-china-uncovered-091125.cfm?vid=347</link> 
	              <pubDate>Wed, 25 Nov 2009 04:44:27 GMT</pubDate>
                  <description><![CDATA[ With an economy that’s set to grow at around 10 per cent despite the financial crisis, labour costs among the lowest in the world and a huge untapped domestic market with pent-up consumer demand to match, China beckons every businessman with an eye on containing costs and expanding his reach. But, business person beware, cautions INSEAD Emeritus Professor of International Political Economy Jonathan Story, who has just written a new book, 'China Uncovered - What You Need to Know to Do Business in China'. ]]></description> 
                  <guid>http://knowledge.insead.edu/economy-china-uncovered-091125.cfm?vid=347</guid> 
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              <title>Coping with Copenhagen: the business implications</title> 
                  <link>http://knowledge.insead.edu/environment-copenhagen-insead-091229.cfm</link> 
	              <pubDate>Tue, 29 Dec 2009 09:34:27 GMT</pubDate>
                  <description><![CDATA[ The Copenhagen Climate Summit (COP 15) began on December 7, 2009, on the heels of the pirating of the East Anglia University Climatic Research Unit's email exchanges, and calls of climate sceptics to re-examine the scientific basis for undertaking actions to limit greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions originating from human activity. ]]></description> 
                  <guid>http://knowledge.insead.edu/environment-copenhagen-insead-091229.cfm</guid> 
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              <title>A nuclear renaissance?</title> 
                  <link>http://knowledge.insead.edu/environment-nuclear-091215.cfm?vid=356</link> 
	              <pubDate>Tue, 15 Dec 2009 08:48:12 GMT</pubDate>
                  <description><![CDATA[ In an age of dwindling natural resources and expanding economies, more countries are turning to nuclear power. According to Mark Fitzpatrick, Senior Fellow for Non-proliferation at the International Institute for Strategic Studies in London, not since the Cold War has there been such renewed interest in nuclear -- though this time, the agenda is different. ]]></description> 
                  <guid>http://knowledge.insead.edu/environment-nuclear-091215.cfm?vid=356</guid> 
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              <title>Developing nations need to embrace economic, political processes to reverse ‘natural resource curse’, says Nobel Prize-winning economist</title> 
                  <link>http://knowledge.insead.edu/economics-natural-resource-curse-100104.cfm</link> 
	              <pubDate>Mon, 04 Jan 2010 09:00:32 GMT</pubDate>
                  <description><![CDATA[ Even though the signs of recovery from the financial crisis are strongest in Asia and the region is touted to be the most likely source of economic growth globally, rural poverty remains rampant.  ]]></description> 
                  <guid>http://knowledge.insead.edu/economics-natural-resource-curse-100104.cfm</guid> 
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              <title>A new world order: the rise of China and the decline of the West</title> 
                  <link>http://knowledge.insead.edu/economy-china-superpower-091021.cfm?vid=331</link> 
	              <pubDate>Wed, 21 Oct 2009 10:04:57 GMT</pubDate>
                  <description><![CDATA[ While many are already talking about the notion of a shift in power from West to East, a thought-provoking book by author Martin Jacques called ‘When China rules the world’ takes this even further by proclaiming that China will not only thrive in the 21st century, but will do so at the expense of the United States.<br>
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                  <guid>http://knowledge.insead.edu/economy-china-superpower-091021.cfm?vid=331</guid> 
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              <title>The Middle Kingdom: Civilisation state or nation state?</title> 
                  <link>http://knowledge.insead.edu/economy-china-middle-kingdom-091021.cfm?vid=330</link> 
	              <pubDate>Wed, 21 Oct 2009 10:06:04 GMT</pubDate>
                  <description><![CDATA[ China is a conundrum: past, present and possibly the future. Even as it is on course to overshadow the US as the next dominant economic superpower, author Martin Jacques argues that it will never become a Western-style society, but will likely remain highly distinctive. ]]></description> 
                  <guid>http://knowledge.insead.edu/economy-china-middle-kingdom-091021.cfm?vid=330</guid> 
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              <title>How economic excesses of the past are influencing the present</title> 
                  <link>http://knowledge.insead.edu/economy-global-malmgren-091027.cfm</link> 
	              <pubDate>Wed, 28 Oct 2009 04:42:53 GMT</pubDate>
                  <description><![CDATA[ The global economic environment of cheap money in the past two decades has been an aberration, which has led to today’s “massive capacity destruction” of natural resources, says Pippa Malmgren, President and Co-founder of the financial services firms the Canonbury Group and Principalis Asset Management.<br>
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	              <pubDate>Mon, 26 Jul 2010 09:29:17 GMT</pubDate>
                  <description><![CDATA[ Numbers may not lie, but often their true significance lies in closer scrutiny. And a good example of this statement lies in the numbers used to tout the world’s great trade imbalance with China - a deficit that shows the EU trade deficit growing from 50 billion euros in 2000 to 297 billion in 2008. “But,” says Pascal Lamy, Director-General of the 153-member Geneva-based World Trade Organisation,  ]]></description> 
                  <guid>http://knowledge.insead.edu/EBS-WTO-trading-places-100726.cfm?vid=455</guid> 
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              <title>Is it too late to get into the China market?</title> 
                  <link>http://knowledge.insead.edu/strategy-china-edward-tse-100416.cfm</link> 
	              <pubDate>Fri, 16 Apr 2010 11:54:36 GMT</pubDate>
                  <description><![CDATA[ Is it too late for multinationals to enter China right now? Not so, according to Edward Tse, Booz & Company’s senior partner and chairman for Greater China.  ]]></description> 
                  <guid>http://knowledge.insead.edu/strategy-china-edward-tse-100416.cfm</guid> 
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              <title>The tortoise and the hare? An analysis of China and India’s long-term prospects</title> 
                  <link>http://knowledge.insead.edu/economics-china-and-india-100518.cfm</link> 
	              <pubDate>Tue, 18 May 2010 11:24:09 GMT</pubDate>
                  <description><![CDATA[ When asked what animals symbolise China and India, most people would probably say the dragon and the elephant. In terms of long-term economic prospects, however, the hare and the tortoise may well turn out to be the more appropriate choice. While India is moving more slowly than China at this point, there is a real possibility that over the next decades, we may see it catching up and, ultimately, pulling ahead. ]]></description> 
                  <guid>http://knowledge.insead.edu/economics-china-and-india-100518.cfm</guid> 
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              <title>‘Narrow’ self-interest, rather than role as a global player, drives China’s foreign policy</title> 
                  <link>http://knowledge.insead.edu/economy-and-politics-China-foreign-policy-100719.cfm?vid=444</link> 
	              <pubDate>Mon, 19 Jul 2010 05:34:08 GMT</pubDate>
                  <description><![CDATA[ Even as China is poised to overtake Japan as the world’s second-largest economy, its foreign policy is driven less by its sense of its role as a key global player than by a set of ‘narrowly defined’ national interests, says Professor Kenneth Lieberthal, Director of the John L. Thornton China Centre and senior fellow in Foreign Policy and Global Economy and Development at The Brookings Institution. <br>
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                  <guid>http://knowledge.insead.edu/economy-and-politics-China-foreign-policy-100719.cfm?vid=444</guid> 
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              <title>The emerging markets: exploring the consequences</title> 
                  <link>http://knowledge.insead.edu/exploring-emerging-markets-101014.cfm</link> 
	              <pubDate>Wed, 20 Oct 2010 11:50:14 GMT</pubDate>
                  <description><![CDATA[ The rapid development of countries like China and India is a remarkable phenomenon, says Vince Cable, the UK’s Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills. “In a matter of one generation, China has broken through to a degree that took over a century in Britain. Solidly established precedents like South Korea show that this breakthrough can be sustained. It is clear that major so-called emerging markets have already emerged.” ]]></description> 
                  <guid>http://knowledge.insead.edu/exploring-emerging-markets-101014.cfm</guid> 
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              <title>After the Asian tigers, will it be the turn of the African lions?</title> 
                  <link>http://knowledge.insead.edu/africa-potential-for-growth-101015.cfm?vid=484</link> 
	              <pubDate>Wed, 20 Oct 2010 11:51:58 GMT</pubDate>
                  <description><![CDATA[ Sub-Saharan Africa is likely to remain the second-fastest growing region after Asia in the near future, predicts Sanusi Lamido Sanusi, governor, Central Bank of Nigeria, but “we can catch up with Asia, as the prospect of Africa as the last unexplored territory in the world and the potential of growth remain.”<br>
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For this to happen, Sanusi says Africa needs to put in place the right policies, address its infrastructure deficit, and provide the right environment and incentives for businesses and capital to come in. “That includes policy consistency, political stability, the fight against corruption, and improved efficiency in business processes. If we did the same thing that the Asians, such as the Indonesians and the Malaysians, did and if we did it right, we should be able to repeat the experience.” ]]></description> 
                  <guid>http://knowledge.insead.edu/africa-potential-for-growth-101015.cfm?vid=484</guid> 
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                  <link>http://knowledge.insead.edu/contents/ChinaRising.cfm</link> 
	              <pubDate>Tue, 13 Nov 2007 02:32:19 GMT</pubDate>
                  <description><![CDATA[ China’s economy is booming, but one of the major challenges facing the country will be leadership - or the lack of it - in political or business spheres. INSEAD Affiliate Professor of Asian Business and Comparative Management, Michael Witt, says that although the Communist Party still tightly rules China, the leadership in Beijing does "not have a lot of power," with the result that it’s difficult to get things implemented. ]]></description> 
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	              <pubDate>Tue, 04 Mar 2008 11:44:47 GMT</pubDate>
                  <description><![CDATA[ “Ageing of populations is often viewed very negatively. Yet we need to constantly keep in mind that it is a sign of success,” says Gavin Jones, co-editor of a new book called ‘The Impact of Ageing: A Common Challenge for Europe and Asia’. That’s because ageing populations in Europe and East Asia represent success in terms of lowering unsustainably high birth rates to replacement level, and prolonging life expectancy, he says. Jones adds that Asia needs to learn from Europe’s experiences and plan ahead. ]]></description> 
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                  <link>http://knowledge.insead.edu/politicalrisk080204.cfm</link> 
	              <pubDate>Tue, 04 Mar 2008 11:45:21 GMT</pubDate>
                  <description><![CDATA[ Businesses try to avoid investing in countries or areas of an economy where they face a high probability that their investment returns will be reduced or even eliminated completely by political developments. Yet while investors the world over are willing to spend considerable time and money employing lawyers and accountants to carry out ‘due diligence’ on planned investments, particularly those in foreign jurisdictions, very few resources - if any - are allocated to  examining the political factors that may influence the success of the venture. ]]></description> 
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                  <link>http://knowledge.insead.edu/EBsclimateforchange080301.cfm?vid=25</link> 
	              <pubDate>Thu, 27 Mar 2008 05:01:35 GMT</pubDate>
                  <description><![CDATA[ A new INSEAD-European Business Summit report on climate change has highlighted a surge in green activities by US entrepreneurs, backed by venture capital. Until 2005, the amount of VC funds invested in clean technologies such as solar and wind power had been running almost neck and neck in the US and Europe. But then there was a sudden surge of VC interest in the US in 2005, the report says, which resulted in US firms raising $4.5 billion in VC funds to invest in clean technology the following year, while the EU raised $1.5 billion. ]]></description> 
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              <title>Shell CEO van der Veer: Carbon dioxide regulation necessary to make the markets work</title> 
                  <link>http://knowledge.insead.edu/EBSShellCarbonDioxideRegulation080303.cfm?vid=31</link> 
	              <pubDate>Thu, 27 Mar 2008 05:05:16 GMT</pubDate>
                  <description><![CDATA[ If governments do not intervene, industries will meet the growing demands for energy in the cheapest way possible, and carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions will increase. That puts Jeroen van der Veer, CEO of Royal Dutch Shell plc, one of the worlds leading petroleum companies, in an odd position: a leading capitalist campaigning for more government regulation.  ]]></description> 
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                  <link>http://knowledge.insead.edu/EBsrhodiaemissionsauction080312.cfm?vid=33</link> 
	              <pubDate>Thu, 27 Mar 2008 05:14:29 GMT</pubDate>
                  <description><![CDATA[ As the EU looks to the post-2012 horizon for regulating emissions of greenhouse gases, Rhodia CEO Jean-Pierre Clamadieu has expressed interest in ways of implementing an auction of emission rights, which since 2005 have been issued cost-free based on past emission levels and then traded. He calls for a sector analysis to identify which industries are most energy-intensive and could thus be hardest-hit by a new auction system.<br>
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                  <guid>http://knowledge.insead.edu/EBsrhodiaemissionsauction080312.cfm?vid=33</guid> 
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                  <link>http://knowledge.insead.edu/EBSClimateChange50YearsLater080310.cfm</link> 
	              <pubDate>Thu, 27 Mar 2008 05:18:50 GMT</pubDate>
                  <description><![CDATA[ Even though the issue of climate change has been known for about decades, it has only been in the past five years or so that the topic has been seriously addressed. Governments and businesses have started to adapt their policies and practices, mostly due to pressure from the public. ]]></description> 
                  <guid>http://knowledge.insead.edu/EBSClimateChange50YearsLater080310.cfm</guid> 
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                  <link>http://knowledge.insead.edu/contents/ILScompetition.cfm</link> 
	              <pubDate>Mon, 09 Jul 2007 04:19:28 GMT</pubDate>
                  <description><![CDATA[ With European growth lagging behind that of Asia, the issue of how Europe can kick-start its economy came under the spotlight at the Leadership Summit. ]]></description> 
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                  <link>http://knowledge.insead.edu/contents/ILSeconomy.cfm</link> 
	              <pubDate>Thu, 12 Jul 2007 05:19:28 GMT</pubDate>
                  <description><![CDATA[ There has been so much 'hype' about the rise of the BRIC countries - Brazil, Russia, India and China - that one begins to wonder about Europe's relevance as an economic power. 'Is the European economy as relevant as it once was?' asks Alice Rivlin of The Brookings Institution. ]]></description> 
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                  <link>http://knowledge.insead.edu/contents/Wertenbroch.cfm</link> 
	              <pubDate>Thu, 23 Aug 2007 12:36:03 GMT</pubDate>
                  <description><![CDATA[ Consumers are commonly subject to what economists call ‘the money illusion’, whereby a consumer’s perception of the value of money is influenced by the nominal value of the currency. In other words, it’s psychologically easier for an American consumer to buy a widget for one dollar in the US than it is for that same consumer to purchase the same widget while on a trip in Vietnam for 16,000 Vietnamese dong, the equivalent of one US dollar. INSEAD professors Klaus Wertenbroch and Amitava Chattopadhyay have taken a fresh look at this classic economic conundrum in a recent article published in the Journal of Consumer Research. ]]></description> 
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                  <link>http://knowledge.insead.edu/ILSAfricaCaseForInvestment080508.cfm?vid=40</link> 
	              <pubDate>Thu, 08 May 2008 04:39:40 GMT</pubDate>
                  <description><![CDATA[ Africa is so diverse, with its variety of countries and resources, that almost any type of business in the world could take advantage of the continents economic growth. That was the view of panellists at the INSEAD Leadership Summit 2008. <br>
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Simon Harford, West Africa head for private equity group Actis and INSEAD alumnus (94D) says virtually any business that can talk to the consumer base of Africa is already growing at remarkable rates, 30 to 60 per cent year on year. <br>
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                  <guid>http://knowledge.insead.edu/ILSAfricaCaseForInvestment080508.cfm?vid=40</guid> 
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                  <link>http://knowledge.insead.edu/ILSNigerianParadox080507.cfm?vid=41</link> 
	              <pubDate>Thu, 08 May 2008 04:44:49 GMT</pubDate>
                  <description><![CDATA[ Emeka Onwuka, CEO of Diamond Bank, talks to INSEAD Knowledge about Nigeria's economy. ]]></description> 
                  <guid>http://knowledge.insead.edu/ILSNigerianParadox080507.cfm?vid=41</guid> 
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              <title>Engaging with Africa: Can business leaders afford to ignore this continent?</title> 
                  <link>http://knowledge.insead.edu/ILSEngagingWithAfrica080506.cfm</link> 
	              <pubDate>Thu, 08 May 2008 04:47:19 GMT</pubDate>
                  <description><![CDATA[ After years of stagnation, Africa is finally experiencing economic growth. Are there opportunities in Africa which are not being recognised by the business community outside of Africa?  ]]></description> 
                  <guid>http://knowledge.insead.edu/ILSEngagingWithAfrica080506.cfm</guid> 
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              <title>Scarcity and innovation: Powering the developing world</title> 
                  <link>http://knowledge.insead.edu/ILSScarcityAndInnovation080510.cfm </link> 
	              <pubDate>Thu, 08 May 2008 04:50:27 GMT</pubDate>
                  <description><![CDATA[ Scarcity of resources, scarcity of political consensus and scarcity of financing for innovation. These are some of the major challenges faced by companies in todays global environment. Thats according to Leif Beck Fallesen, editor-in-chief and CEO of the Danish publication Dagbladet Borsen. Fallesen was the moderator of the first plenary session at the INSEAD Leadership Summit. He said these concerns are highlighted by a growing food crisis (wheat prices rose more than oil prices last year), climate change and decreased foreign investment (down by 9 per cent). ]]></description> 
                  <guid>http://knowledge.insead.edu/ILSScarcityAndInnovation080510.cfm </guid> 
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              <title>Sustainability: a business opportunity</title> 
                  <link>http://knowledge.insead.edu/ILSInnovationPhilips080505.cfm?vid=42</link> 
	              <pubDate>Thu, 08 May 2008 04:53:00 GMT</pubDate>
                  <description><![CDATA[ By the year 2040, only 15 per cent of the world's population will be living in what are now called developed countries. It's therefore essential for today's business planners to start focusing on the rest of the planet. Fortunately a strategy centred on emerging markets can be both financially profitable and socially responsible, says Barbara Kux of the Dutch multinational Royal Philips Electronics. <br>
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"Developing countries are a fantastic source of opportunities for companies," says Kux, who is a member of the electronics giant's group management committee. ]]></description> 
                  <guid>http://knowledge.insead.edu/ILSInnovationPhilips080505.cfm?vid=42</guid> 
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              <title>Meeting the sustainability challenge: HCL Technologies</title> 
                  <link>http://knowledge.insead.edu/ILSSustainabilityHCL080503.cfm?vid=43</link> 
	              <pubDate>Thu, 08 May 2008 05:01:06 GMT</pubDate>
                  <description><![CDATA[ Corporate India is just as committed as Europe and the United States to sustainability, asserts Vineet Nayar, CEO of HCL Technologies Ltd.<br>
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Indian businessmen are global businessmen - they are not isolated in India, he says. And the entire economy is global so you just cant say the economy is isolated. <br>
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              <title>The road to nationhood</title> 
                  <link>http://knowledge.insead.edu/RoadToNationhood080602.cfm?vid=49</link> 
	              <pubDate>Wed, 25 Jun 2008 05:50:28 GMT</pubDate>
                  <description><![CDATA[ Building a nation-state out of the ashes of destruction is not easy, but the President of Timor-Leste (formerly East Timor), José Ramos-Horta, says his country will seek to become a viable nation by eliminating unemployment in the next two to three years by creating new jobs from its investments in infrastructure projects. ]]></description> 
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              <title>Stemming the 'silent tsunami'</title> 
                  <link>http://knowledge.insead.edu/StemmingSilentTsunami080612.cfm?vid=55</link> 
	              <pubDate>Wed, 25 Jun 2008 07:35:02 GMT</pubDate>
                  <description><![CDATA[ Over the past two years, approximately 100 million people have been pushed into poverty globally as a result of increased food prices. Gains in poverty reduction efforts in developing countries are at risk if governments fail to protect the poor from rising food prices, says Vikram Nehru, the World Banks Director of Poverty Reduction and Economic Management and Acting Chief Economist for East Asia.  Its like a silent tsunami in the sense that theres no dramatic footage that can bring home to people the misery and the human suffering that such price increases can exert on the poor.  ]]></description> 
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              <title>Climate change: How increasing energy consumption in the short term could bring benefits</title> 
                  <link>http://knowledge.insead.edu/IncreasingEnergyConsumptionCouldBringBenefits080606.cfm</link> 
	              <pubDate>Wed, 25 Jun 2008 07:36:22 GMT</pubDate>
                  <description><![CDATA[ The continued rise in food prices is just one example of the kinds of surprises we will be facing in the years to come. Dr Ashok Khosla, founder of Development Alternatives  a non-governmental organisation devoted to promoting commercially-viable , environmentally-friendly technologies  and  a former director of the United Nations Environment Programme , says there are many surprises coming up. I mean real surprises. Climate change was already a pretty big one.<br>
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              <title>The economics of climate change</title> 
                  <link>http://knowledge.insead.edu/TheEconomicsOfClimateChange080605.cfm</link> 
	              <pubDate>Wed, 25 Jun 2008 07:38:21 GMT</pubDate>
                  <description><![CDATA[ Rich countries have to take the lead in fighting global climate change. Lord Nicholas Stern, an economics professor from the London School of Economics, says that without a commitment from wealthy countries, carbon emissions will become deeply damaging right across the economy and around the world.<br>
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              <title>Global information technology report: Making progress</title> 
                  <link>http://knowledge.insead.edu/GITR080608.cfm?vid=53</link> 
	              <pubDate>Wed, 25 Jun 2008 07:43:55 GMT</pubDate>
                  <description><![CDATA[ Denmark and the Nordic countries again dominate the rankings in the Global Information Technology Report, but this year the United States and South Korea make progress in the Networked Readiness Index (NRI) for 2007-2008, which covers a record number of 127 developed and developing economies around the world. <br>
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Today with the benefit of seven years of data, we have concrete, hard data to support the statement that technology does in fact make a country more competitive, says Soumitra Dutta,  the Roland Berger Chaired Professor in Business and Technology at INSEAD, who co-authored the report which is published by the World Economic Forum. ]]></description> 
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              <title>Afghanistan's media battleground</title> 
                  <link>http://knowledge.insead.edu/Afghanmediabattleground081226.cfm</link> 
	              <pubDate>Tue, 30 Dec 2008 08:17:52 GMT</pubDate>
                  <description><![CDATA[ Six years ago television was banned in Afghanistan and its single national radio station was Taliban-run.  ]]></description> 
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              <title>Strong partnership key to success in bottom of the pyramid innovation</title> 
                  <link>http://knowledge.insead.edu/PartnershipBottomPyramidInnovation080803.cfm</link> 
	              <pubDate>Tue, 26 Aug 2008 05:55:49 GMT</pubDate>
                  <description><![CDATA[ For those at the ‘bottom of the pyramid’ (BoP), the four billion people or so living on less than two dollars a day, life is hard. Although collectively they have considerable combined purchasing power, they have up to now been traditionally overlooked by businesses. However, major multinational corporations (MNCs) are now seeing opportunities in developing products for the BoP markets, while making a difference to the lives of the poor people.<br>
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              <title>Asia feels the pain caused by the crisis but could be poised for rapid recovery</title> 
                  <link>http://knowledge.insead.edu/AsiaRapidRecovery081107.cfm?vid=127</link> 
	              <pubDate>Fri, 21 Nov 2008 06:35:50 GMT</pubDate>
                  <description><![CDATA[ Asia can’t escape the financial and economic crisis that is battering the rest of the world, but the region may be poised for a more rapid recovery if leaders in business and government work together and show leadership. ]]></description> 
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              <title>Blueprint for a new international financial order</title> 
                  <link>http://knowledge.insead.edu/NewFinancialOrder081104.cfm</link> 
	              <pubDate>Fri, 21 Nov 2008 06:39:10 GMT</pubDate>
                  <description><![CDATA[ Politicians have acted decisively to restore confidence and liquidity in the banking sector through the injection of capital and guarantees on interbank loans. The UK, continental EU countries, the US and Switzerland, have injected new capital into their home banks, increasing capital ratios. <br>
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Political leaders are now calling an international conference for a new international financial order to discuss the creation of a supranational supervisory body, Bretton Woods II. ]]></description> 
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              <title>Obama could help US economy recover by mid-2009</title> 
                  <link>http://knowledge.insead.edu/ObamaEconomy081108.cfm?vid=132</link> 
	              <pubDate>Fri, 21 Nov 2008 06:41:48 GMT</pubDate>
                  <description><![CDATA[ The victory of Barack Obama, the first African-American to become president of the United States, could help the troubled US economy recover by the middle of next year, says Ilian Mihov, professor of economics at INSEAD.<br>
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“Obama’s platform when he was campaigning was to increase government spending and cut taxes. If the change is aggressive and very determined, I think the US economy can start recovering by the middle of next year,” Mihov says. ]]></description> 
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              <title>The future of Chinese capitalism</title> 
                  <link>http://knowledge.insead.edu/FutureChineseCapitalism080804.cfm?vid=83</link> 
	              <pubDate>Wed, 27 Aug 2008 08:08:54 GMT</pubDate>
                  <description><![CDATA[ China's emerging economy is an enormous success story and it’s remarkable, say two INSEAD professors, because it's really one big experiment. <br>
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In their book, The Future Of Chinese Capitalism, Gordon Redding and Michael Witt say that different parts of China are trying different things to find the best formula. "China does not have a grand plan for developing itself. It's very conscious that it's running the society as a series of experiments," Redding says.<br>
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              <title>Bridging the cellular divide</title> 
                  <link>http://knowledge.insead.edu/CellularDivide080910.cfm</link> 
	              <pubDate>Tue, 30 Sep 2008 04:04:00 GMT</pubDate>
                  <description><![CDATA[ Since 2003, one sector in Pakistan has seen more than eight billion dollars in investment, an increase in its customer base to 52 per cent of the population from just five per cent, has contributed to some five per cent of the country’s GDP, and been responsible for the creation of up to a million jobs.<br>
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Pakistan’s telecommunications sector has, in the span of just five years, seen mobile phone subscriptions increase to 86 million from one million. In a population of 165 million, where only 4.5 million people have fixed-line telephones, the rapid expansion of the cellular market has been nothing short of a telecoms revolution. <br>
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              <title>Global uncertainty fails to dampen China outlook</title> 
                  <link>http://knowledge.insead.edu/ChinaOutlook080901.cfm</link> 
	              <pubDate>Tue, 30 Sep 2008 04:06:22 GMT</pubDate>
                  <description><![CDATA[ China’s economy, along with those of Hong Kong and Macau, face significant threats of a fall-out from the US credit crisis, but business leaders are holding out hopes for a bright future due to abundant opportunities in the region. That’s according to speakers at Bloomberg’s 2008 Leadership Forum, held recently in Hong Kong. ]]></description> 
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              <title>The China Syndrome: understanding the Chinese economy</title> 
                  <link>http://knowledge.insead.edu/TheChinaSyndrome080908.cfm?vid=89</link> 
	              <pubDate>Tue, 30 Sep 2008 04:10:42 GMT</pubDate>
                  <description><![CDATA[ China’s economy is booming and many multinational companies are looking to tap the Asian giant’s potential. However, according to Peter Bowie, CEO of Deloitte China, foreigners wanting to do business with the Chinese appear to be ill prepared because their pre-conceived notions about China are simply outdated. ]]></description> 
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              <title>CEO view: Wolfgang Prock-Schauer of India’s Jet Airways</title> 
                  <link>http://knowledge.insead.edu/CEOJetAirways.cfm?vid=85</link> 
	              <pubDate>Tue, 30 Sep 2008 04:13:00 GMT</pubDate>
                  <description><![CDATA[ As the aviation industry faces its biggest crisis in recent history because of high fuel prices and the economic slowdown, airlines are forced to do business differently as they seek to trim operating costs ruthlessly to brace themselves for tough times ahead.<br>
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“Jet Airways is working on all areas to streamline operations including cutting loss-making routes,” says Wolfgang Prock-Schauer, CEO of Jet Airways, India's largest private airline. India’s aviation industry lost $1 billion last financial year ending March 2008 and it expects to lose another $2 billion this financial year. Jet Airways’ fuel bills have increased by $50 million a month.  ]]></description> 
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              <title>We should heed the lessons of the collapse of the ‘golden age’: a personal view</title> 
                  <link>http://knowledge.insead.edu/GreatDepression080912.cfm</link> 
	              <pubDate>Tue, 30 Sep 2008 04:29:25 GMT</pubDate>
                  <description><![CDATA[ When I teach my macroeconomics class for the MBAs at INSEAD, I always discuss the Great Depression and the lecture ends on an optimistic tone with a simple statement: “The Great Depression will never happen again”. I firmly believed this because there is a widespread consensus that the Great Depression was a result of a sequence of policy mistakes. Economists have learned what policies should be applied to avoid the Great Depression. <br>
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Unfortunately, I have to revise my optimism now. It is not because what we learned was wrong, nor because we have unlearned the big lessons from the Great Depression. Optimism fades because it turns out that political bickering and petty re-election agendas can wipe out the lessons of more than 70 years ago. <br>
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              <title>US economy may plunge into depression if banking sector bailout fails</title> 
                  <link>http://knowledge.insead.edu/USEconomyBailout080911.cfm</link> 
	              <pubDate>Tue, 30 Sep 2008 04:36:39 GMT</pubDate>
                  <description><![CDATA[ The US economy may plunge into a depression if the $700 billion rescue package fails to revive the ailing banking sector, says Ilian Mihov, INSEAD Professor of Economics.<br>
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“The Great Depression (this time) is still unlikely but it is not impossible anymore. This is quite sad,” Mihov says.<br>
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              <title>As recession fears intensify, is India a safe haven?</title> 
                  <link>http://knowledge.insead.edu/IndiaSafeHaven081004.cfm</link> 
	              <pubDate>Thu, 30 Oct 2008 07:49:38 GMT</pubDate>
                  <description><![CDATA[ "India is not simply setting new standards on trade, investment and economic terms, it’s also emerging as a genuinely influential player in many of the big global policy issues that we are all talking about at the moment – climate change and energy sustainability, WTO (World Trade Organisation), and global corporate responsibility; because some of the Indian companies are models in this respect, and – the more interesting – because of their different origin." This is according to Helen Alexander, the new Confederation of British Industry Vice President, and previously Chief Executive of the Economist Group. ]]></description> 
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              <title>Banks in Asia may weather global financial crisis</title> 
                  <link>http://knowledge.insead.edu/BanksAsiaCrisis081001.cfm</link> 
	              <pubDate>Thu, 30 Oct 2008 07:52:51 GMT</pubDate>
                  <description><![CDATA[ Banks operating in Asia should come out of the global financial crisis relatively unscathed compared to their counterparts in the US and Europe, given their more conservative lending activities and stronger balance sheets, bankers and financial experts said at a recent Bloomberg Leadership Forum held in Singapore. ]]></description> 
                  <guid>http://knowledge.insead.edu/BanksAsiaCrisis081001.cfm</guid> 
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              <title>Global crisis forces corporations to look beyond quarterly earnings</title> 
                  <link>http://knowledge.insead.edu/GlobalCrisisSustainability081125.cfm</link> 
	              <pubDate>Tue, 02 Dec 2008 04:21:03 GMT</pubDate>
                  <description><![CDATA[ With the US economy in turmoil, Wal-Mart, the nation’s leading retailer boasting more than 144 million customers per week, is taking on a new leadership role. In a country where about one person in three is considered obese and 47 million people are without healthcare, the company is taking a unique stand in educating both its consumers and suppliers.  ]]></description> 
                  <guid>http://knowledge.insead.edu/GlobalCrisisSustainability081125.cfm</guid> 
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              <title>Can China help power the global economy out of a crisis?</title> 
                  <link>http://knowledge.insead.edu/ChinaGlobalCrisis081003.cfm?vid=100 </link> 
	              <pubDate>Thu, 30 Oct 2008 08:08:34 GMT</pubDate>
                  <description><![CDATA[ With the credit crisis buffeting global economic growth, China’s industrial production and construction declined due to weaker export orders, factory closures for the Beijing Olympics and the sagging property market. However, retail sales growth remained strong, while inflation eased amid falling commodity prices. Nevertheless, Dominic Barton, Asia Pacific chairman of consultancy firm McKinsey & Company, is “very bullish about where China is going to be over the next two to three years." ]]></description> 
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              <title>Rethinking global financial systems</title> 
                  <link>http://knowledge.insead.edu/RethinkingFinancial081016.cfm?vid=99</link> 
	              <pubDate>Thu, 30 Oct 2008 08:14:43 GMT</pubDate>
                  <description><![CDATA[ The consensus is loud and clear: in the wake of the worst global financial crisis since the Great Depression, a fundamental rethink of the structure of the global financial markets and greater cooperation of the major regulatory bodies are paramount, said the heads of major financial institutions at the World Knowledge Forum in Seoul.<br>
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              <title>World Bank to double lending to emerging economies in wake of crisis</title> 
                  <link>http://knowledge.insead.edu/WorldBankfinancing081223.cfm</link> 
	              <pubDate>Tue, 30 Dec 2008 08:21:07 GMT</pubDate>
                  <description><![CDATA[ The World Bank is aiming to double its lending to emerging economies that are most vulnerable from the fallout of the global financial crisis, World Bank president Robert Zoellick said at a recent forum in Singapore organised by the Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy.<br>
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              <title>African entrepreneurs must pressure governments to regulate business environments</title> 
                  <link>http://knowledge.insead.edu/EMRCAfrica090114.cfm</link> 
	              <pubDate>Fri, 16 Jan 2009 04:37:47 GMT</pubDate>
                  <description><![CDATA[ Although many African companies will be hit by the current global slowdown, there is a lot that local entrepreneurs and their governments can do to improve their business environments, says Arthur Levi, former head of the World Bank’s private sector arm, International Finance Corporation (IFC) Europe. ]]></description> 
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              <title>Global outlook: big spenders and penny-pinchers</title> 
                  <link>http://knowledge.insead.edu/StephenRoachglobaloutlook090116.cfm</link> 
	              <pubDate>Mon, 19 Jan 2009 04:39:17 GMT</pubDate>
                  <description><![CDATA[ In the US, extravagance is a normal way of life. In China, it is a sin. Such contrasting consumer psyche between the two economies needs to be evened out before a sustained recovery of the post-bubble global economy can be achieved in the longer run, says Stephen Roach, chairman of Morgan Stanley Asia. ]]></description> 
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              <title>Islamic finance: funding the ‘real economy’</title> 
                  <link>http://knowledge.insead.edu/IslamicFinance081114.cfm?vid=128</link> 
	              <pubDate>Fri, 21 Nov 2008 06:20:35 GMT</pubDate>
                  <description><![CDATA[ The global financial crisis presents an opportunity for the Islamic finance industry to show its credentials, say several practitioners in the field. Speaking to INSEAD Knowledge at the 6th International Islamic Finance Conference here, Daud Vicary Abdullah, COO of Asian Finance Bank, says “the biggest opportunity really is around getting the messages across about the value-proposition of Islamic products and the way in which Islamic finance is done.” ]]></description> 
                  <guid>http://knowledge.insead.edu/IslamicFinance081114.cfm?vid=128</guid> 
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              <title>Australian banks well positioned to weather the financial crisis</title> 
                  <link>http://knowledge.insead.edu/AustralianBanks081106.cfm?vid=118</link> 
	              <pubDate>Fri, 21 Nov 2008 06:23:01 GMT</pubDate>
                  <description><![CDATA[ In comparison to the battered banks elsewhere, Australia’s ‘big four’ banks have been “holding up very well” relative to their counterparts in the US and Europe, which have either filed for bankruptcy or have sought government bailouts, says John Schubert, chairman of the Commonwealth Bank of Australia, the country’s biggest lender by market capitalisation. ]]></description> 
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              <title>The Obama effect</title> 
                  <link>http://knowledge.insead.edu/TheObamaEffect081102.cfm?vid=124 </link> 
	              <pubDate>Fri, 21 Nov 2008 06:27:35 GMT</pubDate>
                  <description><![CDATA[ The latest US election, and Barack Obama’s campaign in particular, was unprecedented in more ways than one, having set new standards for future elections. “This campaign will change all campaigns going forward,” says Steve Okun, who worked on transportation issues in the Clinton administration and is currently chairman of the American Chamber of Commerce in Singapore. ]]></description> 
                  <guid>http://knowledge.insead.edu/TheObamaEffect081102.cfm?vid=124 </guid> 
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              <title>When social innovation makes good business sense</title> 
                  <link>http://knowledge.insead.edu/SocialInnovationBusinessSense081110.cfm?vid=130</link> 
	              <pubDate>Fri, 21 Nov 2008 06:30:29 GMT</pubDate>
                  <description><![CDATA[ With the international community galvanised to look for ways to solve the current financial crisis, it appears that other problems have been relegated to the backburner. That could have dire consequences in the long term, especially if the problem is that of climate change, says Rob Routs, Executive Director Downstream, Royal Dutch Shell. ]]></description> 
                  <guid>http://knowledge.insead.edu/SocialInnovationBusinessSense081110.cfm?vid=130</guid> 
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              <title>Tackling the financial crisis by changing tack</title> 
                  <link>http://knowledge.insead.edu/ChangingTack081111.cfm?vid=131</link> 
	              <pubDate>Fri, 21 Nov 2008 06:33:47 GMT</pubDate>
                  <description><![CDATA[ China, one of Asia’s economic powerhouses, is not immune to the global financial crisis despite enjoying double-digit growth in the last five years and being poised to achieve nine per cent growth this year. Share prices in Shanghai have fallen 72 per cent and house prices have come down 55 per cent. Demand has plummeted and thousands of factories have closed because of cancelled or delayed export orders.<br>
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              <title>Political change in China is ‘almost inevitable’ but Beijing has ‘nothing to fear’: Anson Chan</title> 
                  <link>http://knowledge.insead.edu/PoliticalChangeChina081105.cfm?vid=133 </link> 
	              <pubDate>Fri, 21 Nov 2008 06:38:04 GMT</pubDate>
                  <description><![CDATA[ Asian pro-democracy advocate Anson Chan says China has ‘nothing to fear’ in allowing Hong Kong full democracy. ]]></description> 
                  <guid>http://knowledge.insead.edu/PoliticalChangeChina081105.cfm?vid=133 </guid> 
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              <title>Living with uncertainty</title> 
                  <link>http://knowledge.insead.edu/LivingWithUncertainty081007.cfm?vid=101 </link> 
	              <pubDate>Thu, 30 Oct 2008 08:22:27 GMT</pubDate>
                  <description><![CDATA[ The authorities in the US and Europe have the right policies in place to tackle the financial crisis, but it will take time to restore confidence in the markets, according to speakers at the World Knowledge Forum. James Wolfensohn, who had led the World Bank during the Asian financial crisis in the late 90s, told the forum’s ‘Live on Wall Street’ session that the markets have ‘yet to be convinced of the utility of these interventions.' ]]></description> 
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              <title>How to recapitalise banks: a personal view</title> 
                  <link>http://knowledge.insead.edu/Howtorecapitalisebanks090213.cfm</link> 
	              <pubDate>Fri, 13 Feb 2009 10:59:20 GMT</pubDate>
                  <description><![CDATA[ The current approach to solving the banking crisis is to put more government money into banks. The problem with this approach is that it creates fear of government meddling in the operational and financial decisions of the banking sector. The capitalist system can only survive if two conditions are met: managers are willing and capable of maximising  shareholder value.  ]]></description> 
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              <title>Coming full circle - the rise of the dragon</title> 
                  <link>http://knowledge.insead.edu/RiseofDragon090217.cfm?vid=182</link> 
	              <pubDate>Thu, 19 Feb 2009 08:25:03 GMT</pubDate>
                  <description><![CDATA[ Has the global economy come full circle – starting with the West and making its way to the East? ]]></description> 
                  <guid>http://knowledge.insead.edu/RiseofDragon090217.cfm?vid=182</guid> 
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              <title>Will India still be a land of opportunity in the face of global economic slowdown?</title> 
                  <link>http://knowledge.insead.edu/Indiaglobaleconomicslowdown081215.cfm</link> 
	              <pubDate>Wed, 17 Dec 2008 04:31:01 GMT</pubDate>
                  <description><![CDATA[ As the economic downturn takes hold in the United States and Europe, the Indian government is frantically trying to keep its economy from stalling, while trying to calm the nerves of foreign investors following the Mumbai terror attacks.<br>
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A general election must be held by May, and the government had been hoping that the nation would be insulated from the problems of the global economy.<br>
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                  <guid>http://knowledge.insead.edu/Indiaglobaleconomicslowdown081215.cfm</guid> 
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              <title>Global crisis forces corporations to look beyond quarterly earnings</title> 
                  <link>http://knowledge.insead.edu/GlobalCrisisSustainability081125.cfm</link> 
	              <pubDate>Wed, 17 Dec 2008 04:51:17 GMT</pubDate>
                  <description><![CDATA[ With the US economy in turmoil, Wal-Mart, the nation's leading retailer boasting more than 144 million customers per week, is taking on a new leadership role. In a country where about one person in three is considered obese and 47 million people are without healthcare, the company is taking a unique stand in educating both its consumers and suppliers. <br>
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                  <guid>http://knowledge.insead.edu/GlobalCrisisSustainability081125.cfm</guid> 
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              <title>Governments have not done enough to address crisis</title> 
                  <link>http://knowledge.insead.edu/GovernmentToAddressCrisis081203.cfm?vid=155</link> 
	              <pubDate>Wed, 17 Dec 2008 04:54:08 GMT</pubDate>
                  <description><![CDATA[ Governments around the world have not done enough to address the damaging effects of the global financial crisis triggered by the one-year old subprime credit crisis in the United States, economist Manu Bhaskaran says.<br>
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                  <guid>http://knowledge.insead.edu/GovernmentToAddressCrisis081203.cfm?vid=155</guid> 
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              <title>The unreal estate</title> 
                  <link>http://knowledge.insead.edu/TheUnrealEstate080701.cfm</link> 
	              <pubDate>Wed, 30 Jul 2008 09:03:34 GMT</pubDate>
                  <description><![CDATA[ For many people around the world, property rights are not well defined, enforced or monitored; resulting in over half of the world’s population living and working on ‘unreal estate’, i.e. without the security of property ownership.<br>
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In her book Prosperity Unbound: Building Property Markets With Trust, INSEAD alumna Elena Panaritis presents a holistic approach to combating this lack of formal rights, arguing that a new thinking process, combined with successful diagnosis and determination for change, could transform society. She says informality has arisen because of the mismatch between institutions, organisations and society’s demands. <br>
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	              <pubDate>Wed, 30 Jul 2008 09:24:18 GMT</pubDate>
                  <description><![CDATA[ Mary Robinson remains an uncompromising voice for human rights. The former Irish president and UN High Commissioner for Human Rights asserted the central importance of human rights in achieving a more just and sustainable future at the Net Impact conference here on sustainable prosperity, and explored with some 400 participants how they can help remind the world that human rights belong to all people and are their shared responsibility.<br>
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“That future can only come about through greater adherence to the rule of law within and between nations, through more effective and democratic states – and no less important, through wider participation by all sectors, including civil society and business, in meeting shared responsibilities and holding governments to account for their obligations,” she says.<br>
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	              <pubDate>Thu, 30 Apr 2009 12:18:49 GMT</pubDate>
                  <description><![CDATA[ Behind the doors at no. 84 rue de Jemmapes along St Martin’s Canal in Paris, social entrepreneurs are busy working on their own and with one another to find ‘innovative solutions’ aimed at bringing about change in society.<br>
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“We wanted to create a collective workspace where social entrepreneurs could meet and exchange best practices and ideas,” says Charlotte Hochman, co-founder and co-ordinator of La Ruche, or ‘The Beehive’ in English. “It is open to anyone proposing an innovative solution to a social or ecological challenge.”<br>
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	              <pubDate>Thu, 30 Apr 2009 12:17:26 GMT</pubDate>
                  <description><![CDATA[ One way or other, the global financial crisis has brought distress to the lives of people, be it in the form of lost jobs, lower wages or losses on investments.<br>
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There are a lucky few, however, for whom their business gets a boost when the economy goes down. These include the distressed asset buyers who stand to profit from the crisis, motivated by the same reason that drives bargain hunters to pick up cheap offers at fire sales. And the big question facing them now is: buy now or later?<br>
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              <title>Aviation facing strong headwinds, reshapes industry</title> 
                  <link>http://knowledge.insead.edu/AviationIndustry090623.cfm</link> 
	              <pubDate>Tue, 23 Jun 2009 12:02:47 GMT</pubDate>
                  <description><![CDATA[ Falling demand, collapsing yields, low consumer confidence and fears of a pandemic have thrust the aviation industry into survival mode. Airlines are expected to post losses of US$9 billion this year, with an unprecedented drop in revenue of 15 per cent, that will see industry revenues shrink by US$80 billion to US$448 billion. <br>
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                  <link>http://knowledge.insead.edu/Lufthansa090623.cfm</link> 
	              <pubDate>Tue, 23 Jun 2009 12:01:54 GMT</pubDate>
                  <description><![CDATA[ Lufthansa carried a total of 70.5 million passengers last year and was ranked number one by IATA (International Air Transport Association) for having carried the most number of passengers on international scheduled routes, leaving number two Air France lagging some 20 per cent behind. <br>
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	              <pubDate>Mon, 06 Jul 2009 12:21:44 GMT</pubDate>
                  <description><![CDATA[ Like many societies, Malaysia is in a period of transition from one generation to a new one and with that comes many issues. After 51 years of independence, the question of who they are as a nation is one that plays a lot on people's minds these days.  ]]></description> 
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              <title>Disaster in Japan: Assessing the economic aftershocks</title> 
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	              <pubDate>Wed, 30 Mar 2011 08:49:10 GMT</pubDate>
                  <description><![CDATA[ INSEAD professor Michael Witt analyses the implications for financial markets, supply chains, Japan’s national energy security as well as the country’s own political leadership and economic recovery. ]]></description> 
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	              <pubDate>Wed, 30 Mar 2011 11:00:37 GMT</pubDate>
                  <description><![CDATA[ INSEAD professor Paul Kleindorfer takes stock of the future for nuclear energy and what it means for global diversification away from fossil fuels. ]]></description> 
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                  <link>http://knowledge.insead.edu/Chinastimuluspackage090705.cfm</link> 
	              <pubDate>Mon, 06 Jul 2009 12:23:10 GMT</pubDate>
                  <description><![CDATA[ China became the world’s largest CO2 emitter in 2007, due to its heavy reliance on coal-generated power to fuel its economy. Environmental damage and the overuse of resources have been associated with health problems, floods, insufficient access to freshwater in some areas, as well as an increase in the number of endangered species.  ]]></description> 
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	              <pubDate>Thu, 09 Jul 2009 11:41:33 GMT</pubDate>
                  <description><![CDATA[ Africa is critically important to China’s global strategy, for a number of reasons: the continent’s geopolitical importance; its large, untapped market; and its abundance of natural resources. And as more Chinese companies feel the need to enter new markets and seek more resources, Africa will only see increased Chinese business and investment activity. ]]></description> 
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