Where is the Turkish Economy Today?
By Özge Taylan As the world’s 18th and Europe’s 7th largest economy, a dynamic member of the G-20 and...
Brain Drain in Putin’s Russia
In 2010, the Nobel Prize in Physics was awarded to Andre Geim and Konstantin Novoselov “for groundbreaking experiments regarding...
How Socialist Remnants Are Hurting Vietnam’s Legacy
During the mid-1980s, Vietnam was plunged into a profound socio-economic crisis. Against this backdrop, the shift away from a...
Trickling Down? Reassessing Today’s Global Economy
They say it will trickle down. While globalization is an undeniable reality today, it is hard to pinpoint when...
KORUS FTA: An Uncertain Future
One of Donald Trump’s favorite targets on the campaign trail were trade deals. Last fall he said, “We are...
Industrialization 4.0 — The emergence of the jobless class?
Adidas, the German sportswear and equipment giant, has announced it will start marketing its first series of shoes manufactured...
How Trump is somewhat right about globalization
At his inauguration, Donald Trump made remarks few would expect from the President of the United States. Standing in...
The Diligent and Freeloader: A Welfare State Experiment
Nothing is free in the world, except the monthly money given to a citizen just because of the citizenship....
Choosing Sides: The Former TPP
The largest trade deal in history died before it could live. The Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) took years to negotiate...
Silence the Alarm: Why China’s AIIB is not a Trojan horse
The Asian Infrastructure and Investment Bank (AIIB) has been a lightening rod for western analysts, think-tanks and media that...