Learn about the Global Business Policy Council's perspective on trends and issues relevant for global executives and country leaders.

The Coming of “The Ten”
Emergent economies are becoming, with remarkable speed, a whole new motor for the global economy... [more]

The World Economy after the G-20 Meeting
Conference Call with Martin Wolf, Associate Editor and Chief Economics Commentator, Financial Times, London... [more]

Can the Shivering Dragon Shake Its Chills
Prospects for economic recovery in China... [more]

Obamanomics and Its Prospects
An assessment of the global economy and President Obama's plan to save it... [more]

Rebuilding the Will to Believe
The daily recitation of problems U.S. President-elect Obama faces as he takes office is inescapable, the litany beginning with an economy on the brink. And while he won the American presidency on a simple and powerful message of "change we can believe in," the irony is that a failure to believe is now protracting our economic problems... [more]

Fixing Global Finance
In an interview with Martin Wolf, associate editor and chief economics commentator for the Financial Times, he discusses global finance and the economic challenge for an integrated world economy... [more]

See additional commentaries:
Managing Banks Beyond the Crisis: The New Financial Landscape, by Martin Walker
2009 Outlook, by Martin Walker
Keynes, Obama and the Rest, by Martin Walker
Looking on the Bright Side, by Martin Walker
After the Olympics: What Are China’s Prospects?, by Dr. Minxin Pei
The New Global Champions, by Norbert Jorek and Dr. Fritz Kröger
The New Asian Hemisphere, by Kishore Mahbubani
Oil Prices and Implications for the Developing World, by Uri Dadush

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