A resilient nation aiming to rebuild its pillars of growth — I still remember the magic of discovering a totally alien world (flicking through pages of a journal, sponsored by Embassy of Japan to introduce the everyday Japan to citizens of then USSR — showing a world so distant and yet so alluring. In a way, that added to the desire…

Defining characteristics of the next cycle: — (1) the massive requirement for regional and international rebuild, the attention to detail, improving the originally imported technologies and licensed patents, allows to massively expand the IP-heavy export oriented industries. …

Its foundational elements, its catalysts, general challenges, growth and societal implications. — Access PDF and / or read below A podcast series, Babbage by the Economist, retraced one’s mind back to an episode the publication did on foundation models — the basis of syper-hyped platforms, where reinforced unsupervised learning statistical networks play hard and re-hash the Web’s available information to provide concise…

A teaser from upcoming publications and written musings that took me all over: — Studying impact of large-scale technological implementations in the past and its impact on economic cycles and growth is fascinating — and illuminating. …

A short study on the back of a recently published IMF paper — Download PDF and/or read below: I’ve been lucky to participate in building 2 successful digital remitters, C24 and Paysend — going through thick papers published by GSMA, CGAP, World Bank and IMF on the challenges that remittance market face at dawn of the digital push, so I’ve with interest reviewed…

The rise of international trade and the goods representations in works of art by Renaissance painters — Download PDF and / or read below It is in itself a rewarding experience to study history, my first degree,- reliving through inspiring turning points in times past, and witnessing as to how they paved way to modernity, civility and reason. In times of iniquity, violence and dogma — dignity…

European trade supremacy achieved through a systemic application of “fintech”. — This post is planned as one of several publications to review different historical shifts and the massively scaled innovation adoption these shifts formed. An inspiration point was a news article, shared by a good friend and the eminent don on the topics of digital money and identity, dgwbirch, about Italian…

Went through https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1843763311/ while doing a research of past growth cycles. Carlota Perez is a respected economist proposing a neo Shumpererian view to sources of economic growth embellished in new Golden ages facilitated by underlying inventions. …

A case of inventions scaled by management practices as a reaction to a “shift”. — The singular moment of 21st century innovation: really? We live and often confuse ourselves by the marvels of how fast information can be retrieved, processed and presented today, as if that only today we shall experience the fastest ever progress during the course of human history. Where some economists, like Robert Gordon, note on decreasing real growth, others…