Economic growth is a function of physical capital, human capital, and ideas – the factor that binds them into output. A simple yet telling model that hints at the structural elements needed for the development of a nation. And although physical and human capital may seem rather simple to understand, the origin of ideas is
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In 2013, the Rana Plaza garment factory collapsed in Bangladesh, demanding the life of over 1100 individuals and leaving hundreds injured. In 2019, the Brumadinho mineral waste dam in Brazil fell apart, leading to the death of hundreds of people. In India, around 40 workers were killed in a fire sweeping through a bag factory in the same year. These examples
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On an unusually sunny day in Amsterdam, I sat across Dennise Yeh, a Taiwanese-born, internationally-bred businesswoman. Dennise is currently the Chief Growth Officer at a coffee consultancy start-up that provides training to stakeholders throughout the coffee value chain, in addition to having their own line of sustainable and innovative coffee. She has previously worked with
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Bitcoin has long held the status of number one cryptocurrency. Since its launch in 2009, individual investors and big corporations alike have stocked up on the digital token. However, the world has since awoken to the sustainability and energy consumption issues around the mining and trading process. Lately, even Elon Musk, one of the most
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