The European Business Review

By Christopher Alden
Spurred on by the global financial crisis, leading emerging states such as China have taken an increasingly commanding role in global economic affairs in response to the trauma experienced by Western industrialised states. Nowhere is this trend more evident than in Africa, a continent traditionally regarded as sitting on the margins of the [...]

By John Mullins
The evidence indicates that the vast majority of business plans raise no money. Of those ventures that are financed, many if not most will fail. What’s wrong with this picture?
Planning is important. But results are what count. And who delivers the results? Entrepreneurs. Entrepreneurs like you [...]

By Natalie Slawinski and Tima Bansal
No industry is as visible and active in the climate change debate as the energy industry. Almost every day, managers are addressing the short-term and long-term implications of their policies for dealing with this issue. The authors of this article interviewed over 50 managers in 8 firms in the oil [...]

By Simon Groves
The 2010 FIFA World Cup demonstrates that patriatism is alive and well throughout the world, and the images of ecstatic – some would say fanatical – supporters urging their national teams to victory, not to mention the constant deafening barrage of the now world famous (or should that be infamous?) vuvuzelas, still resonate [...]

By Peter Schmidt, Atradius Chief Market Officer
This article is concerned with trade credit – the agreement to delayed payment for goods or services supplied by one business to another – and how the current economic crisis has challenged the ways trade credit could be properly and efficiently managed to develop and maintain successful long term [...]

By Jos Peters, Merlyn International Tax Solutions group

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In ‘’International Tax Review’’ a leading international tax magazine, issue February 1, 2010, mention is made of the fact that the OECD has published a public consultation document aimed at ‘’making it easier for portfolio investors to claim treaty benefits’’ . This might lead to the conclusion that [...]

Economic recovery in China, India, and elsewhere in the region could be the strongest source of sustained global growth for years to come.
In September 2008, the global financial crisis hit Asia like a tidal wave, flooding in from the U.S. and Europe. Within weeks, Asian GDP growth rates began to tumble: China’s annual growth rate [...]

Developing and developed countries may have a lot more in common these days than many people think. Take health care. As the U.S. Congress continues to debate President Obama’s controversial national health care plan, an innovative program similarly aiming to improve the lives of the poor is being launched on the other side of the [...]

Economist Robert Reich believes that the excesses of capitalism have produced a world order in which people feel good as consumers but suffer as citizens.

When Robert Reich published Supercapitalism: The Transformation of Business, Democracy, and Everyday Life in 2007, the U.S. economy was growing, the financial sector was intact, and the housing bubble had just [...]

If there were just a few things that China has wholly embraced from the West, it would be their love for Kentucky Fried Chicken, or KFC as it is more commonly known. In 1987, the fast-food operator opened its first outlet near Tiananmen Square in Beijing. Then came 2,000 other outlets, which sprung up across [...]