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Book Review: The Metropolitan Revolution: How Cities and Metros are Fixing our Broken Politics and Fragile Economy

CESRAN Int.24 March 2021

Bruce Katz and Jennifer Bradley The Metropolitan Revolution: How Cities and Metros are Fixing our Broken Politics and Fragile Economy (The Brookings Institution, Washington, 2014. 288 pages. $27.70. ISBN: 9780815721512.)...

Book Review: The Central Asian Economies in the Twenty-First Century: Paving a New Silk Road

CESRAN Int.24 March 2021

Richard Pomfret The Central Asian Economies in the Twenty-First Century: Paving a New Silk Road (Princeton University Press, 2019, ISBN: 978-0-691-18221-6, 328 pp., $45.00 / £38.00) Central Asia is of...

CESRAN Blog International Economics

The Role of Social and Economic Factors on Fast Food Restaurant Chains

CESRAN Int.4 August 20192 November 2019

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China and Neighbourhood International Economics

Indonesian Political Economy: A Historical Analysis

CESRAN Int.17 April 20192 November 2019

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China and Neighbourhood Defense & Security International Economics Russia and Eurasia

Answers to China’s Belt and Road Initiative (BRI)

CESRAN Int.9 October 20189 October 2018

Deng Xiaoping’s motto “keep cool-headed to observe, be composed to make reactions, stand firmly, hide our capabilities and bide our time, never try to take the lead, and be able...

Africa International Economics

Explaining Bank Stability Using Bank Specific Factors in Zimbabwe

CESRAN Int.26 July 201826 July 2018

Abstract This study examined the role played by bank specific factors in explaining bank stability in Zimbabwe. A panel data set was compiled covering 15 CAMEL type ratios from all...

International Economics

The “New Normal” in Cyclical Recessions

CESRAN Int.24 January 201824 January 2018

There is a ‘new normal’ in cyclical recessions, namely, that the recovery cycle is itself recessionary for the vast majority of the population, not just in periphery countries that invariably...

International Economics

USING THE DEVICE OF A TREATY TO CONTROL CORPORATIONS?

Admin210 August 2017

In today's modern democracies, corporations wield significant influence over our lives, as well as over our governments. In the wake of the global financial crisis, it is evident that corporate...

CESRAN Blog International Economics

Artificial Intelligence: ‘Frankenstein’ or Capitalist Money Machine

CESRAN Int.4 March 20175 March 2017

Introduction The Financial Times’ Special Report (2/16/2017) published a four-page spread on the ‘use and possible dangers of artificial intelligence (AI)’. Unlike the usual trash journalists who serve as Washington’s...

CESRAN Blog International Economics

Economic Development Models and Capitalism

CESRAN Int.8 June 20158 June 2015

The question of "Development Models" In the post-Communist era now more than two decades old, many people around the world are questioning what is the best economic development model? One...

International Economics

Leadership and Economic Integration: the case of the Cameroon-Gabon couple

CESRAN Int.9 March 20159 March 2015

JCTS | Vol. 4 | No. 1-2 | April-October 2014 Abstract Sub-regional economic integration offers benefits to members, including new trade opportunities, larger markets, an increase in bargaining power and...

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Austerity, the Hardworking and the Feckless

CESRAN Int.30 October 201427 May 2016

About two years ago, the current UK finance minister George Osborne commented that ‘hard-working people’ left for work every morning while ‘behind the blinds’ of the house opposite people on...

International Economics

A Comparative Business Case for Bridging Strategies

CESRAN Int.30 March 2014

The current US Foreign Policy seeks to maintain a balance of power among Nation States. The US expects to confront all manner of persistent conflict through a global engagement strategy....

International Economics

The Hindrance of Development in Pakistan: How Pakistan is Holding Itself Back

CESRAN Int.30 March 2014

A full, liberal democracy is a system that has fair, competitive elections along with conditions such as: nearly universal suffrage, a loyal opposition, and respected civil liberties. Democratic practices give...