Middle East
On 65 square miles along the Red Sea in Saudi Arabia, a new city rises in the desert. King Abdullah Economic City, expected to have 2 million residents by 2030, was announced by the king in 2005. It is being developed by KAEC, a publicly listed Saudi company that since 2008 has been headed by CEO...
"It sets a precedent that the EU authorities might, in the future, confiscate some of the deposits of eurozone banks."
Darrell Duffie, professor of finance, Stanford Graduate School of Business
On Monday, March 18, as policy makers grappled with Cyprus' precarious financial situation, we asked...
Behind the car bombs, drone attacks, and uprisings around the world lies a very old and common problem: how to curb the fear people experience when another social group threatens their future. In recent research, economist Saumitra Jha has found examples where political reforms that leverage...
When the nonprofit organization Endeavor Global says they mentor "high-impact" entrepreneurs around the world, they're not kidding.
Take Yossi Hasson, the charismatic founder of one of South Africa's leaders in hosted email and internet security services. Bitten by the entrepreneurial bug since he...
Former British Prime Minister Tony Blair traces his deep interest in Africa back to his father teaching in Sierra Leone in the early 1960s, a time when South Korea was just as poor as Sierra Leone. While South Korea took off economically, Sierra Leone was racked by a long civil war. But now, “the...
The 80s and 90s ushered in the downfall of communism and the Berlin Wall. Now the world watches Arab Spring uprisings from citizens demanding democracy across the Middle East. Gayle Lemmon, Deputy Director of the Women and Foreign Policy Program at the nonpartisan Council on Foreign Relations and...
STANFORD GRADUATE SCHOOL OF BUSINESS —It’s one of the world’s most intractable problems: bringing Israelis and Palestinians together to resolve the Middle East conflict. But while such a complex and systemic issue may seem overwhelming, recent social science is showing that even small...