Knowledge Work as we knew it, has had its Day.
McKinsey & Company’s seminal study titled “Disruptive technologies: Advances that will transform life, business, and the global economy” listed 12 technologies that could “drive truly massive economic transformations and disruptions in the coming years”. Second from the top, with an estimated economic impact of between $5 trillion and $7 trillion annually by 2025, was the automation of knowledge work.
A lack of HS knowledge is allowing the Philippines to become a dumping ground for the world’s garbage.
A surprising revelation emerged from recent hearings held by the Philippines House of Representatives Ecology Committee concerning the persistent problem of trash from abroad finding its way into the country. Committee members grilled officials from the Bureau of...Balancing the Unbalanceable
About a year ago, as part of its Community of Practice Series on Trade Facilitation for the Caribbean Region, the Inter-American Development Bank invited me to speak about whether it was possible to reconcile the competing forces of Customs Compliance and Trade Facilitation.
To prove my thesis that current compliance and facilitation initiatives are incompatible, I plotted U.S. customs compliance and trade facilitation initiatives over a graph of duty losses from 2003 to 2014. The results were stark…
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