The city embraces visitors with a blanket of smells, from the most wonderful scents of herbs and spices and flowers from street vendors, to the horrific stink of the sewers
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‘Onward Singapore’ says the national anthem, and judging from the view from my balcony, it’s going also upwards and sometimes sideways. It’s hard to keep up with the speed at
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Over the past few decades, a substantial body of research has been undertaken to examine the relationships between cultural diversity, value systems and economic performance. This research has produced mixed
ContinueAfter decades of deregulation companies from each and every industry are now facing reversing trends. Regulatory pressure, a direct consequence of crises, scandals, globalization and resource depletion, is on the
ContinueUNCTAD World Investment Forum, UN, Geneva, 14th October 2014 It is estimated that 80% of CO2 emissions are now produced in cities. Currently, 50% of the global population lives in
ContinueWhy pay full price for something when you can rent it cheaper from a stranger online? That is what an increasingly number of people are thinking today. Some share for
Continue3.2% of the world’s population is migrants; putting them all together in one country would create the world’s fifth most populous country with 232 million people. Europe and Asia combined
ContinueManufacturing of goods is one of the biggest sectors of the global economy and with the size of the global middle class expected to increase to 4.9 billion by 2030
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At long last The Global Trends Fieldbook: From Data to Insights to Action is in production! A companion to The Global Trends Report 2013 which outlines the major trends reshaping
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It happened again. A domestic helper in our neighborhood here in Singapore, an Indonesian woman, asked the helper next door for food and clothes. Your occasional correspondent is trying to
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