Industries in the intelligent age.Technology is now the primary driver of change and disruption across business sectors. To take full advantage of the plethora of opportunities, leaders will need a new tool kit to help themselves, and their organizations, adapt. ...
coordination in the aftermath of the September 11, cooperation across four of the five pillars (peace 2001 attacks, financial coordination in the wake of and security was the exception), led by innovation the global financial crisis in 2008, which included and technology’s more than 30% increas...
Xi pledged that China's development will continue to offer opportunities to business communities in other countries, and that China will advance the building of the Free Trade Area of the Asia-Pacific and negotiations of the Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership to form a global network of fre...
Our goal going forward is to further open up the financial services sector. Just as we have removed foreign ownership caps in the banking sector, we plan to take similar steps in the insurance and securities sectors in the next few years and phase in full-license, full-ownership operation in...
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Stabilization of food production on the Chengdu plain was a major accomplishment and is thought to be a key factor in the unification of the Chinese empire [146]. Qanats are the products of decisions taken with the full knowledge of the risks involved, and indeed, many attempts ended in ...
While none of these scenarios is likely to come to pass in full or in isolation from the other scenarios, each is an extrapolation of a current trend. At the conclusion of the Summit on the Global Agenda 2013, Joseph S. Nye, Jr. remarked that "today's trends left unattended could lead...