ISSUE 17
- Interviews: Keith Mitchell, Ai Weiwei and Sean Fitzpatrick
- Brand China: how is China shaping the world?
- The Big Picture: onwards and appwards – software as a service is where the future of IT lies
- Country reports: Brazil, Tanzania and Grenada
- Nelson Mandela: remembering a friendship, hail and farewell
- Plus: CHOGM13 highlights and introducing Janet Yellen
EDITORIAL:
Old trade routes, new approaches?
China’s legendary creativity, from the silkworm to Ming porcelain, is celebrated in museums throughout the world. The finest of everything was transported on camels from Xi’an to Kashar through one of the world’s harshest deserts to reach Western courts eager for the most beautiful goods from the mysterious East. After...
GLOBAL INSIGHT: BIG PICTURE
See you at Davos!
NIK GOWING
Some of the most powerful people in the world descend on a Swiss ski resort...
How will China shape the world?
GEORGE MAGNUS
China is set to overtake the USA as the world’s biggest economy in the next...
Onwards and appwards
PETER GRIFFIN
Software developers are moving towards cloud-based solutions, turning software into apps that no longer reside...
GLOBAL INSIGHT: BRAND CHINA
The origins of China’s copycat culture
AUSTIN WILLIAMS
The Chinese attitude towards intellectual property has long been the bane of Western manufacturers. But...
Rising stars of China’s business world
KELLY BROWN & KALLEY TZUHUI
China watchers Kerry Brown and Kalley Tzuhui Wu have chosen their top eight Chinese business...
Culture clash: Africa’s lukewarm welcome for the Chinese
ANVER VERSI
While Chinese investment is mostly welcomed by Africa, the Chinese workers who are sent by...
SPOTLIGHT: BRAZIL
Brazil: safety in numbers
MAURICIO SAVARESE
Frustration with the government’s fiscal policy prompted ordinary Brazilians to take to the streets in...
Music for the masses: Latin America gets onto the itinerary
MARK HILLARY
Major acts from the USA and the UK are starting to include Brazil in their...
State gives entrepreneurs a helping hand
ANGELICA MARI
A government-backed initiative is attracting local and foreign entrepreneurs looking for a chance to make...
GLOBAL ARENA: TALKING POINTS
Ai Weiwei interview: ‘Art is the collective struggle to understand our existence’
AI WEIWEI
Ai Weiwei is one of China’s best-known contemporary artists. His work includes everything from architectural...
Introducing… Janet Yellen: first lady of the Fed
LESLEY CURWEN
Janet Yellen is about to become the most powerful central banker in the world. At...
Measuring prosperity
NATHAN GAMESTER
Comparing the wealth of nations has never been easy. The Prosperity Index is an indicator...
Strife on the ocean waves
ANDREW MOURANT
Far from the romanticised swashbucklers of Hollywood, modern-day maritime pirates leave victims traumatised – some...
A proud Parsee
RITA PAYNE
British-Indian peer Lord Bilimoria is a Zoroastrian Parsee, a minority religion with its roots in...
Communal conservancies: Namibia’s gift to the Earth
CHIEF EMEKA ANYAOKU
Wildlife conservation in Namibia has seen animal populations increase and poaching decline, as ordinary people...
The honest truth
STEPHEN COLE
How does a nation that has been divided by hostilities move on once peace is...
Counting the cost of cosmic clutter
ROSAMUND WEST AND KATIE SILVESTER
The amount of junk orbiting the Earth is growing, as bits of old satellites and...
The Robin Hood of pharma
Dr Yusuf Khwaja Hamied’s stance against monopoly and profiteering have made him infamous among pharmaceutical...
Books – recent titles reviewed
Why terrorists outdo state armies in the efficient pursuit of their ruthless goals Out of...
IN FOCUS: GRENADA
Interview: Keith Mitchell, Grenada’s Prime Minister
KATIE SILVESTER
Grenada’s Prime Minister Keith Mitchell tells Katie Silvester how he plans to cut the nation’s...
Grenada: landslide election victor looks for consensus on debt
NEIL FORD
With the New National Party winning all the seats in the 2013 elections, the country...
Balancing the books: Grenada tackles its national debt
NEIL FORD
National debt is running at more than 100 per cent of GDP and unemployment is...
Relaxing in Grenada
NEIL FORD
Despite its history of armed rebellion and staunch resistance against much larger nations, the country...
IN FOCUS: TANZANIA
Tanzania: putting its foot on the gas
A. H. SALEH
Recent discoveries of gas look set to give the country an economic boost, along with...
Acid attacks leave bitter taste
ANVER VERSI
A spate of acid attacks in Tanzania drew international attention when two British schoolgirls became...
Queen of the taarab
A. H. SALEH
Tanzania’s traditional dance, music and art form part of the rituals of daily life –...
COMMONWEALTH NETWORK: COMMONWEALTH IN ACTION
From the Commonwealth Secretary-General
KAMALESH SHARMA
Our 2013 Heads of Government Meeting, hosted by Sri Lanka in November, saw the Commonwealth...
CHOGM was always going to be overshadowed by human rights
BRAD ADAMS
“Does anyone specifically have a question that’s not on Sri Lanka or human rights?” pleaded...
Massacre heralds start of South Africa’s alienation from the Commonwealth
STUART MOLE
As apartheid began to take hold of South Africa during the 1950s, other African countries...
Sean Fitzpatrick interview: Sport finds a common goal
SARAH JUGGINS
Former All Blacks captain Sean Fitzpatrick tells Global about rugby rivalry, his sporting heroes and...
Asking the big questions about economics
PETER CALLAGHAN
Deals to the tune of US$2 billion are expected to come to fruition as a...
Commonwealth Association of Museums
CATHERINE C. COLE
Museums with a common perspective work together across the Commonwealth through workshops and projects to...
Bite-sized CHOGM
The communiqué issued after CHOGM 2013 runs to 21 pages and 98 points, recording everything...
Forum looks at development beyond 2015
The theme of the 2013 Commonwealth People’s Forum, which met at CHOGM, was ‘Equitable growth...
Mahinda Rajapaksa and Prince Charles welcome Heads of Government to Colombo
The Prince of Wales opened the 22nd Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting (CHOGM) in Colombo,...
Premiers of Canada, India and Mauritius boycott summit
Three prime ministers decided to boycott CHOGM, citing human rights violations in Sri Lanka for...
Youth Forum delegates demand action on education and unemployment
By 2015, there will be three billion young people in the world – the largest-ever...
Small states make big plans in Colombo
The Commonwealth has affirmed its commitment to supporting the progress of small states, Commonwealth Secretary...
One more Mandela miracle
In death as in life, Nelson Mandela is inspirational. After days of sad, yet joyous,...
Dominica to ditch Privy Council as its court of appeal
The Caribbean Court of Justice (CCJ) is set to become Dominica’s final court of appeal...
Maldives’ fraught elections get seal of approval
Presidential elections in the Maldives have finally got the thumbs up from the Commonwealth Ministerial...
Federation breakfast meeting carries the baton for the 2014 Commonwealth Games
The imminence of the 2014 Games was the main subject of discussion at the Commonwealth...
Anti-mosquito patch will advance malaria battle
Field tests for a patch that repels disease-transmitting mosquitoes are set to take place in...
Film-maker points to ‘apartheid’ conditions of Australia’s Aborigines
Today’s indigenous Australians face a situation akin to South African apartheid, according to a new...
The youth of today
The Commonwealth has launched an index to measure the development and empowerment of young people,...
Traffic accident sparks Singapore’s worst riot in decades
The first major riot in more than 40 years erupted in Singapore’s Indian district after...
