...Alexander Brown China is creating an “accelerator state” through a multi-layered system to identify and fast track the growth of high-tech SMEs in strategic sectors. Certified high-tech SMEs enjoy unique advantages, most notably privileged access to public and private financing. An analysis...

... on their debt contracts. The riskiest of governments, by contrast, can borrow only from official creditors—other governments with a desire to provide finance on concessional terms, perhaps because of their strategic or economic interests, or multilateral banks with a mandate to finance development projects...

... a closer look suggests that the prospects for these forms of digital money are not clear-cut. finance digital currencies stablecoins Bitcoin central banks banking The evolution of money is best characterized as a sequence of long eras of stasis or imperceptibly gradual change, punctuated...

... investment funds to shun fossil fuel producers. But financial forces are also part of the problem, still driving more production and consumption of fossil fuels. Achieving transformational shifts in finance, production, and governance calls for a more disruptive politics underpinned by shifts in power...

... Gordon economic sanctions Iraq Iran South Africa Cuba United States United Nations Security Council international finance banking insurance shipping trade humanitarian 3In 1919, trying to persuade the United States to join the League of Nations, President Wood-row Wilson touted...

... Jacqueline Best global financial crisis Great Recession democracy economics monetary policy finance unemployment Keynesian economics Milton Friedman Ronald Reagan Margaret Thatcher neoliberalism regulation 291 Ten years after the 2008 financial crisis threat-ened to bring the global...

...Scott B. MacDonald; Jonathan Lemco For now Japan is too integrated into the world financial system and too big to fail…. But a time of reckoning is coming if changes are not made. © 2002 Current History. All rights reserved. 2002 The Regents of the University of California economy finance...