Business & Industry

Employees work in front of a computer screen at the headquarters of Central Agency for Public Mobilization and Statistics (CAPMAS) in the capital of Cairo, Egypt February 5, 2017. Picture taken February 5, 2017. REUTERS/Shokry Hussien - RTX30NYX

Future Development Reads: Making markets work better

Friday, July 28, 2017

A Chinese tourist pays cash at a Lotte duty free shop in central Seoul, South Korea, February 2, 2016. Chinese visitors to South Korea are buying less from global luxury mainstays like Louis Vuitton and Chanel in favour of cheaper homegrown brands, as young, independent travellers make up a bigger share of tourists. Picture taken on February 2, 2016. REUTERS/Kim Hong-Ji - RTX25IKA

A golden age for business? Every second five people are entering the global middle class

Wolfgang Fengler and Homi Kharas

Thursday, July 27, 2017

French President Emmanuel Macron, Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban, Poland's counterpart Beata Szydlo and Slovakia's counterpart Robert Fico attend a meeting of the Visegrad Group in Brussels, Belgium, June 23, 2017. REUTERS/Emmanuel Dunand/Pool - RTS18B85

Investing in illiberalism. Why European businesses should end their embrace of Hungary and Poland

Thorsten Benner and Wolfgang H. Reinicke

Thursday, July 27, 2017

Qatar Airways aircrafts are seen at Hamad International Airport in Doha, Qatar June 12, 2017. REUTERS/Naseem Zeitoon - RTS16R4Z

The Gulf’s airlines are winning on product but losing at politics

Adel Abdel Ghafar and Andrew Leber

Wednesday, July 26, 2017

Examen de las Políticas Comerciales 2016: Guatemala

By World Trade Organization

2017

Trade Policy Review 2016: Sri Lanka

By World Trade Organization

2017

Examen des Politiques Commerciales 2016: République Démocratique du Congo

By World Trade Organization

2017

A computer user poses in front of a Google search page in this photo illustration taken in Brussels May 30, 2014. Google has taken the first steps to meet a European ruling that citizens can have objectionable links removed from Internet search results, a ruling that pleased privacy campaigners but raised fears that the right can be abused to hide negative information. REUTERS/Francois Lenoir (BELGIUM - Tags: POLITICS SCIENCE TECHNOLOGY) - RTR3RK9T

Future Development Reads: Books on digital transformation for your summer reading list

Wolfgang Fengler

Friday, July 14, 2017

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Trump administration brings a different approach to manufacturing

Friday, July 14, 2017

Kidane Mihret church is seen in Eritrea's capital Asmara, February 19, 2016. Eritrea's capital city boasts one of the world's finest collections of early 20th century architecture, which the authorities want declared a UNESCO World Heritage Site. When Italy's colonial experiment in Eritrea ended in 1941, it left behind an array of Rationalist, Futurist, Art Deco and other styles of Modernism in Asmara, a city they nicknamed "La Piccola Roma" or "Little Rome". REUTERS/Thomas Mukoya SEARCH "THE WIDER IMAGE" FOR ALL STORIES - RTSA0H0

Africa in the news: DRC election delay, Huawei-WorldRemit partnership, and new UNESCO World Heritage African landmarks

Friday, July 14, 2017