Christina Knutsson, is a director of GDP Global since 2005. She has 16 years’ direct experience in economic promotion, working with and on behalf of European, African and Latin American investment promotion and economic development agencies at …
Charles Hardeman, an Associate Consultant of GDP Global, is also CEO of Santerre Ltd. (www.santerre-ltd.com). The company specializes in providing services in infrastructure development and business management. Prior to his …
I have just come back from a brief trip to the Asia Pacific region: Japan, Thailand and the Philippines to be precise. I worked in the Philippines and Japan between the mid 80’s and mid 90’s and visited Thailand countless times in my days as an insurance executive. …
Most analysts believe that the credit crunch is likely to be with us through 2008 at least, and, as a result, project finance lenders for infrastructure developments, including Public Private Partnership (PPP) deals, are assessing which sectors are suitable for their …
Despite the global financial and economic difficulties, Abu Dhabi is continuing to develop the Masdar Initiative – to pursue “solutions to some of mankind’s most pressing issues: energy security, climate change and truly sustainable human development”.
What’s the PPP angle? Well, the government of Abu Dhabi is …
Large organisations are notoriously risk adverse yet they need to grow. Also, people do not change unless there is a very good (usually economic) argument for them to do so that has ‘urgency’ writ large right through it.
In a …
Recessions have no respect for longevity or brand name. Only organisations with flexible and resilient business models survive intact.
This week in the UK, a very long-lived retailer (almost 100 years), with an instantly recognisable brand name (Woolworths), went into administration. The …
Occasionally we lucky people at GDP Global get the opportunity to work with IPAs from the least developed countries LDCs. Recently as part of a workshop in Phnom Penh for the IPAs of Cambodia, Lao PDR and Vietnam we …
Underweight, overweight, right weight?
In all walks of life we are preoccupied with fat… Having read my colleagues’ blogs made me decide some light heartedness on the subject of KPIs. And how it relates to your IPA.
To follow my analogy …