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Full-Text Articles in Growth and Development
Making Babies: Getting Into The Mood For Love, Singapore Management University
Making Babies: Getting Into The Mood For Love, Singapore Management University
Perspectives@SMU
The pursuit of a perfect partner by women can betraced back to thousands of years ago when the world was still a society of hunters and gatherers. Back then, men tended to provide the family with meat and protection while women stayed at home to plant crops and take care of junior.
Markowitz 2.0: Innovations For Asset Allocation, Singapore Management University
Markowitz 2.0: Innovations For Asset Allocation, Singapore Management University
Perspectives@SMU
The economic wreckage from the 2008 global financial crisis dealt a blow to the theoretical foundations of finance and economic. Many of these theories, such as Markowitz’s Modern Portfolio Theory (MPT), were considered received wisdom and taught in practically all business schools. But now they appeared inadequate to the task of handling the “fat-tails” and “black swans” of extreme market events. These crashes were also occurring far more often than predicted by these theories.
Risk Management In A Volatile Market, Singapore Management University
Risk Management In A Volatile Market, Singapore Management University
Perspectives@SMU
As stock markets around the world whipsaw in a manner that bewilders even the seasoned trader, an academic has suggested for financial institutions to look more closely at linking dynamic loss tail distributions to contagion modeling for effective risk management.
Beneath And Beyond The Chinese Miracle, Singapore Management University
Beneath And Beyond The Chinese Miracle, Singapore Management University
Perspectives@SMU
China’s rapid economic progress from an impoverished communist state to the world’s second largest economy within just three decades has enthralled many economists. That the country shifted from the classical centrally-planned command economy to one espousing free market practices while maintaining communist rule, has all given rise to this question: What exactly is the China model? Is it the hybrid of innovative state ownership and tight political control? Or is the rapid growth the result of liberal economic and political reforms?
When It Comes To Poverty Reduction, Less May Be More, Singapore Management University
When It Comes To Poverty Reduction, Less May Be More, Singapore Management University
Perspectives@SMU
It is a widely accepted belief that people should be better off as the economy expands: The greater the growth, the greater the likelihood that poverty numbers will decline. While there are many good and valid reasons to hold this to be true, exceptions exist, where the lives of the poor have improved rapidly despite slow growth, or where poverty actually increases along with strong economic growth.
Watching The Clock: Challenges For The World's Fastest Growing Economies, Singapore Management University
Watching The Clock: Challenges For The World's Fastest Growing Economies, Singapore Management University
Perspectives@SMU
Double-digit economic growths that are set to propel it to the second biggest economy in the world, overtaking Japan, has made people see China’s rise as remarkable. So confident are the pundits that they have dubbed this to be an “Asian century” and many more are urging for the world to learn Chinese in anticipation of a new world order. But, to renowned historian Wang Gungwu, this fast-paced growth associated with China is not something that is peculiar to the Asian giant only.
Ingredients For Creating And Sustaining Growth For The Long Term, Singapore Management University
Ingredients For Creating And Sustaining Growth For The Long Term, Singapore Management University
Perspectives@SMU
It is easy to explain why organisations need and want to grow. This applies not only to bottom line-oriented companies, but also non-profit entities. Just like the same way business management skills can and should be applied to public sector and not-for-profit set-ups, these organisations do seek growth too. However, while it is easy to engineer short spurts of growth one way or another, what differentiates a successful organisation from one less so, is whether this organisation can sustain growth over the long-term and achieve continuous success.
How The Mindless Growth Mantra Of Modern Economics Is Failing Us, Singapore Management University
How The Mindless Growth Mantra Of Modern Economics Is Failing Us, Singapore Management University
Perspectives@SMU
Just three years after the 2008 global financial crisis, the world wonders, yet again, if another global downturn might be looming.