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A look at corruption.
Bryane Michael
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View as a gridPolice corruption in PNG
Post Courier
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A look at the police.
Economic Literacy and Your Quality of Life
Post Courier
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Describes how lack of basic “household economics” is holding back PNG families.
How to Get Your Share of PNG’s Wealth
Post Courier
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Where are Papua New Guinea's Digital Nomads?
Post Courier
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Digital nomads are a tricky species. Papua New Guinea should be throwing its arms wide open to them. Yet, fear holds us back. Fear they will get hurt. Fear we will get hurt. A thriving 21st century, though, needs as many fancy foreigners as we can attract - for any length of time.
Macroeconomy: What You Need to Know for 2024
Papua New Guinea Post Courier
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The macroeconomic outlook for 2024
How to Get Your Share of PNG’s Development Plan
Post Courier
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PNG has an ambitious plan for its development. Getting your share of the lucre will require more than a degree, a good vote and a bribe or two. Here are some ways to support a growing family…
A Better Way for PNG to Combat Climate Change? - Post Courier
Post Courier
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New taxes passed under the new Climate Change Act will threaten an already fragile economy, bloat an already inefficient government and will do little to combat actual climate change. A better designed Bill could have changed all that. Papua New Guinea has joined the fight against climate change.
How Government Subsidies Could Literally Turn Out the Lights on PNG
Papua New Guinea Post Courier
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Are energy subsidies killing PNG's budget? And economy? Stay tuned!
A Better Way for PNG to Combat Climate Change? - Post Courier
Post Courier
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New taxes passed under the new Climate Change Act will threaten an already fragile economy, bloat an already inefficient government and will do little to combat actual climate change. A better designed Bill could have changed all that. Papua New Guinea has joined the fight against climate change.
A Better Way for PNG to Combat Climate Change? - Post Courier
Post Courier
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International free markets, not diktat, will save us from environmental destruction?
Don't let fears around cryptocurrency curb fintech's potential
South China Morning Post
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Highly visible crashes such as those by FTX, Terra and Luna and Celsius have worried regulators and led to efforts to increase oversight of digital currencies. But getting ahead of the Web3 game takes resisting the urge to clamp down on as yet unknown tech.
What the European Union's Big Tech Trust-Busting Moment Means
hku.hk
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Instead, policymakers and competition adjudicators should see these platforms and ecosystems for the shams they are: the 21st-century version of the oldfangled trust and conglomerate, rolled into one. Facebook became part of our electoral ecosystem because we did not legislate otherwise.
What the European Union's Big Tech Trust-Busting Moment Means
hku.hk
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Instead, policymakers and competition adjudicators should see these platforms and ecosystems for the shams they are: the 21st-century version of the oldfangled trust and conglomerate, rolled into one. Facebook became part of our electoral ecosystem because we did not legislate otherwise.
A better way to buy private sector securities? - Central Banking
Central Banking
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The novel coronavirus outbreak has caused central banks around the world to buy private sector assets on an unprecedented scale. These purchases include bonds and even equities. Yet, most central banks conducting such purchases have little idea of the real economic effects of their activities.
How Much Good Could FinTech Do, If FinTech Could Do Good?
sites.duke.edu
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Courtesy of Bryane Michael Financial technology (or FinTech) represents the corporate social responsibility of the 2010s. The very name increasingly represents something wholesome: reshaping social impact and promoting FinTech4Good, and stepping up to tackle the challenges caused by the COVID-19 crisis.
A change in central banking? - RSA
thersa.org
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As central banks buy stocks and bonds in order to prop up the economy, Bryane Michael FRSA, asks whether this will be effective and whether the Covid-19 crisis could cause a much needed change in central banking? Central banks around the world have started buying private companies' stocks and bonds again.
The Hidden Public Procurement Costs of the Coronavirus
Asia Global Online
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The coronavirus crisis is going to be very expensive. Yet, bad procurement practices elevate this cost needlessly. In this article, I describe the why lack of planning has led to direct awarding and emergency contracts which bypass all the usual safeguards. I describe a way to plan for better procurement in future crises.
Could central banks influence real economic productivity?
Global Banking and Finance Review
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Bryane Michael, University of Oxford and Viktoria Dalko, Hult International Business School For decades, scholars and policymakers have looked at the central bank as the passive night watch-person of the economy. The US Federal Reserve, Bank of England and the European Central Bank (among others) should provide a stable amount of money for the economy - and thereby stable price levels.
Could central banks influence real economic productivity?
Global Banking and Finance Review
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Bryane Michael, University of Oxford and Viktoria Dalko, Hult International Business School For decades, scholars and policymakers have looked at the central bank as the passive night watch-person of the economy. The US Federal Reserve, Bank of England and the European Central Bank (among others) should provide a stable amount of money for the economy - and thereby stable price levels.
The Future of Journalism Reflects the Uncontroversial Future of Capitalism
nus.edu.sg
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The future of journalism isn't as bleak as many predict. Journalism markets will continue much as before...and standard economic tools show us how the future will be just like the past (only different).
A question of transparency: could Hong Kong taxpayers be funding Belt and Road projects soon? | H...
Hong Kong Free Press
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Earlier this month, Financial Secretary Paul Chan outd in his personal blog Hong Kong's role in investing in Belt and Road projects. In his post, he noted that the "HKMA's Infrastructure Financing Facilitation Office (IFFO)... is exploring cooperation with state-owned enterprises (SOE) to lo for some attractive overseas projects with stable returns, and to consider ...
Extinction Time for the Bretton Woods Dinosaurs?
nus.edu.sg
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Top level government ministers, UN agency brass and the requisite number of 'civil society' personages will meet Bali Indonesia in mid-October. Bank-Fund staff represent some of the last dinosaurs to roam the earth. Like their anti-diluvian peers from the Mesozoic Era, they have failed to evolve with the times.
What Does 1MDB Teach Us about exposing corruption?
nus.edu.sg
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Becoming a billionaire by holding public office is getting harder. Senior officials in Russia, Turkey, and China look like they will walk away from their political careers - super-wealthy. Yet, for countries without the size, power and Security Council membership, their politicians will have a harder time squirreling away bribes abroad.