Here’s Why and How to Prepare: For decades, China has been synonymous with manufacturing for companies worldwide. China’s emergence as the world’s second-largest economy has been underpinned by its manufacturing base albeit studies correlating night time light emission data captured by satellites with a country’s GDP suggests that the official...

CEOs across the world are facing a fraught, unstable economic environment. Nearly three-quarters of CEOs believe that global economic growth will decline over the next year – marking a record-high level of pessimism.  CEOs are particularly cautious about international operations – largely due to geopolitical instability and sweeping changes caused...

Four Ways to Minimize the Risk:  The unprecedented onslaught on tax havens in recent years combined with the adverse publicity given to some large multinationals for paying “obscenely low” levels of tax has had a serious result – tax authorities worldwide are under pressure to plug tax loopholes and raise...

The world today is increasingly interconnected.  This is particularly so in the case of business. At first glance, the fact that immigration and market protective barriers are coming down worldwide can be taken to imply the reverse.  However, this is far from the case. The very fact that immigration is...