Publications
Business Reporting Beyond Numbers - Looking for the Good, the Bad, and the Ugly in Corporate Governance. This Lesson Learned aims to help business journalists track down corporate governance stories, ask the right questions to uncover critical information, and explain complex subjects to the wider reading public.
How Can Financial Supervisors Improve the Effectiveness of Corporate Governance? Private Sector Opinion by John Palmer and Chang Su Hoong.
News
Why Can't We All Just Get Along? Learn about our new program on Resolving Corporate Governance Disputes.
Call for Papers: Corporate Governance in Emerging Markets. The Forum and the Asian Institute of Corporate Governance call for papers to be presented at the 3rd International Conference on Corporate Governance in Emerging Markets, to be held May 28-29, 2011 in Seoul, Korea.
Learning Events
Latin American Corporate Governance Trifecta – In Rio! The Companies Circle Meeting, the Latin American Roundtable, and the Meeting of the Latin American Institutes of Corporate Governance will take place during October 2010 in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
Launch of the Practical Guide on Corporate Governance: Experiences from the Latin American Companies Circle in Peru, Mexico and Colombia. The Practical Guide was launched on June 1 2010 in Peru, on June 11 in Mexico, and on August 5 in Colombia.
2nd Abu Dhabi Corporate Governance Conference "Towards More Effective Boards of Directors." 12 October, 2010 - Fairmont Bab Al Bahr, Abu Dhabi, UAE.
A New Leaf: the Growth of Corporate Governance in the MENA Region. Hawkamah Annual Conference, October 31 -November 1, 2010.
Verbatim
"Any failure to integrate women fully into the work force is particularly costly in terms of GDP. It's clear that women can add incrementally to a developing nation's economy." The Global Gender Gap Report 2008, Ricardo Hausmann, Laura Tyson, Saadia Zahidi, World Economic Forum p.22 (taken from Donor Dynamics issue #3 April 2010, Ernst & Young)
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