Opinions

Health and poverty: new financial instruments enable the funding of new vaccines for least developed countries (LDCs). Donors are more willing to commit themselves if actual payment is delayed and tied to tangible results

The recession has interrupted, but not erased, the activism of private funds, which are likely to start targeting Italy and the Old Continent once more

Competitive Intelligence (CI) only employs public information sources to build the foundations of business strategy

Some analyses are finding a correlation between demographic trends and Wall Street trends

Commodity suppliers beware: with the crisis, it’s a buyer’s market. But when normality returns, it’s going to a be a seller’s market once more

For developed countries, the effects of global aging could end up being worse than the crisis. But developing economies also stand to be adversely affected