Latest | Volume 07 Issue 2
COVID-19 Impact on the Global Economy
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The Covid-19 pandemic will likely end when a vaccine can be made available to everyone, or when we have achieved some measure of herd immunity.
Featured Articles
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More than half of humanity currently lives in urban areas, and the United Nations predicts that figure will reach 70 percent by 2050. Cities worldwide already generate a significant amount of solid waste annually, adding to vexing issues that the global community is trying to address–demand for transportation, air pollution, access to public open spaces, urban sprawl, and general sustainability challenges.
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JUMBO Group shows how digital transformation and its seafood business can go together.
From the Editor
The Covid-19 pandemic will likely end when a vaccine can be made available to everyone, or when we have achieved some measure of herd immunity.
At The Helm
An interview with Dr Victor Fung, Group Chairman of the Fung Group, on the future of global supply chains.
What are some of the key changes taking place in global supply chains?
Vantage Point
The pandemic is likely to make long term changes to deglobalisation and medium-term inflation.
Industry Watch
How Singapore’s Tan Tock Seng Hospital had to strike a balance between reducing business-as-usual services and increasing outbreak-coping capacity when Covid-19 broke out.
Vibrant cross-generational interactions can result in strong relationships being formed, as demonstrated in the case of Tata Steel Ltd.
Organisations can implement long-term policies that would make working from home a win-win situation for both employers and employees.
The prolonged lockdown across countries due to the Covid-19 pandemic has led to a very real shift towards a new Work-from-Home (WFH) culture for the global workforce. Homes have become the new conference rooms, virtual backgrounds are the new office artefacts, and workplace chatter is now peppered with new lingo like ‘digital hand’, ‘breakout rooms’, and ‘virtual happy hours’.
Case In Point
A case study on how Pinduoduo's dedicated portal has helped farmers during the Covid-19 outbreak.
Executive Brief
Hedge funds offer numerous possible outcomes for investors and fund managers, but there is just no way the future can be predicted consistently during these uncertain times.
Boosting creativity and innovation in family firms.
Looking at the current state of the global economy and the extent of financial market hedonism through the lens of Oscar Wilde’s “The Picture of Dorian Gray”.
The Picture of Dorian Gray, a novel by Oscar Wilde,1 is a perfect analogical device that can be used to demonstrate the effect of the hedonistic policies of corporations, bankers, central bankers, regulators, and governments, which focus only on the strength and vibrancy of the financial markets, but discount their resultant debilitating impact on our core economy, industry, and society.
