Blog Posts tagged with : Business
Resisting the persistent perils of protectionism
Posted by on Jul 31, 2012We live in highly perilous times. The resurgence of protectionism and the breakdown of the tenuous global trade peace represent some of the greatest perils. On the basis of current trends, such an outcome seems inevitable. It is simply a question of when. [more] While alarmists at the time of the 2008 great recession envisaged something comparable to the out...
Rio and Los Cabos: worlds apart?
Posted by on Jun 20, 2012It is perhaps telling that the Rio+20 meetings in Brazil are taking place close to, but not in conjunction with, the G20 meeting. Los Cabos, Mexico, and Rio may be close in geographical terms but they might as well be worlds apart. The G20 summit of the leaders of the 20 largest economies (plus some) in the world took place in Los Cabos, a pristine stretch o...
Key lessons from the French presidential election
Posted by on May 08, 2012I spend roughly 40 per cent of my time in Asia, 44 per cent in Europe and the remainder in diverse parts of the world. When in Asia, I am conscious of how Europe seems remote and increasingly irrelevant, certainly when judging from the media. I was in and out of Asia during the months running up to the French presidential election; there was very little cove...
A beginner’s guide to sustainability
Posted by on Mar 29, 2012Twenty-five years after the Brundtland Commission coined the definition of sustainable development, “sustainability” has finally become a buzzword. But, although there is a lot of interest in sustainability, the concept is not very well understood. Even the supposed definition – “development that meets the needs of the present without com...
Apple’s audits: important but not the key
Posted by on Feb 22, 2012The furore over Apple’s “failures” to ensure labour and environmental standards compliance in its supply chain continues, with protests outside Apple stores, petitions online to “tell Apple how you feel” and an increasing number of high-profile expose-type articles looking at conditions in Apple’s suppliers. The counterparts to exposes and ...
