World Truth

Maybe the Bhutanese show us the way by adopting "Gross National Happiness"? I've often featured these sorts of articles concerning how we would be better off moving past gross domesti…

Zzzzz...Barack yaps too much...will set things straight in WaPo...zzzzz... I am utterly perplexed by this recent, bizarre op-ed by former US Treasury Secretary Larry Summers in the Washington Post. …

The Ultimax machine gun is proudly Made in Singapore. Today marks the end of an era as arguably the best-known Asian leader of his generation, Lee Kuan Yew--statesman, father of an independent Singap…

They didn't use words like "colonial" and imperial" way back when for nothing. I am utterly befuddled by (mostly uninformed Western) commentary that depicts protesting Hong Kong st…

Actually, we're not quite there yet. The management literature is littered with references to new forms of organizational structures alike matrixes, networks and so on that are coming to replace…

Just as some folks spell T-R-O-U-B-L-E, certain nations have the reputation for it going a looooong way back. For a blog purporting to be the IPE Zone, you may have noticed that I have had very few …

Though not always, expatriates often develop piercing insights into the often strange political economy of Asian nations as outsiders looking in. Lord Christopher Patten of Barnes should be familiar …

The migration of the so-called " Flying Geese Model " has been responsible not only for integrating more regional economies into the world economy's fold but also raising living standar…

Although more than a few colleagues tend to view the World Bank in quite a negative light no matter what they do, I have come to a more ambivalent position. (Newer readers should note potential confl…

I recently visited Singapore and was given a quaint reminder of days gone by when, while checking into my hotel, I noticed a separate registration section needed to be filled by unmarried guests shar…