Affairs / Society
Monocolumn
Tuesday 26 January
Haiti’s lifeline – from Africa
For Abdoulaye Wade, Senegal’s octogenarian president and a committed pan-Africanist, simply offering aid to Haiti’s earthquake victims was not enough.
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Business / Business Hubs
Monocolumn
Friday 14 January
Rivals for the art of Asia
From their status as financial hubs to their dense populations, Hong Kong and Singapore have much in common. When Art Stage Singapore 2011 opened to the public yesterday the latter city hopes to add one more facet to the…
Affairs / Politics
In the hot seat
Chile’s first female president, Michelle Bachelet, was tortured as a student under Pinochet’s rule and lived in exile for nearly five years. As her term comes to an end, Monocle talks to the popular leader about male cha…
Business / Economics
Monocolumn
Wednesday 23 September
Crisis? What crisis?
The somewhat odd celebrations on the first birthday of the financial crisis offered much remorse and only dim rays of hope.
Affairs / Economics
Monocolumn
Wednesday 5 September
Portugal needs to hold on to its talent
Spending the evening strolling around the Baixa district of Lisbon, watching the bars and restaurants fill up as the sun begins to set across the Tagus river, it can be easy to imagine that Portugal’s financial crisis…
Affairs / Urbanism
Good in a crisis
Greece’s finances are in a dire state, and its government under pressure. The latest EU bailout package has staved off economic collapse for now, but unemployment is at a record high and many Greeks are feeling the effects…
Affairs / Politics
Monocolumn
Tuesday 8 March
The economic effects of protest
Bahrain is left to question the financial implications of revolution when its ambitions are less successful.
Affairs / Economics
Monocolumn
Wednesday 2 November
Why Greece doesn’t need a Greek chorus
You can’t ask all the people all the time.
Culture / Media
Briefing Media
It's all credit to the Wall Street Journal and its new payment scheme, action stations for Indian financial news and the best of Italian publishing.
Business / CEOs
Handle with care
Rosa Lladró is the president of Lladró, the Spanish porcelain company begun by her father and uncles in the 1950s. Having ducked a manufacturing downturn in Spain, she tells Monocle how to combine family and financial…
Culture / Arts
Monocolumn
Thursday 11 April
Charity collector
Leonard Lauder's huge donation of works to the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York is not just financially generous, it's culturally rewarding too.
Affairs / Emerging Markets
Monocolumn
Wednesday 11 May
Former colonies come to Portugal’s rescue
It is a special kind of relationship, and one that could prove crucial to Portugal’s recovery. In a reversal of history, the Iberian nation is now relying on the trade and financial support of its former colonies to help…
Affairs / Politics
Monocolumn
Thursday 8 April
Kyrgyzstan’s revolution
There are many things that have helped provoke the violent revolution in Kyrgyzstan this week: extreme poverty, financial crisis and possibly a nudge from Moscow, to name just a few.
The Briefing, episode 155
Why more Europeans are looking to Moscow for job opportunities and we stop by the Financial Times Business of Luxury conference in Marrakesh.
The Monocle Weekly, episode 96
Tyler Brûlé and the team are joined by special guest Gwen Robinson of the Financial Times for a look ahead to this week's royal wedding.
Affairs / Politics
Monocolumn
Friday 18 February
Japanese brush up on their English
Verb conjugation; adverbial clauses; the future progressive: forget financial jargon, these are the words that may soon be found flying around the offices of Japan’s banking world.
The Briefing, episode 182
EU trade commissioner Karel De Gucht discusses Europe’s financial crisis and we get the latest aviation news from Farnborough International Air Show.
The Monocle Weekly, episode 28
Tyler Brûlé anchors this week's edition from the radio studios of leading Italian financial media group, Il Sole 24 Ore, in Milan.
Affairs / Economics
Monocolumn
Thursday 8 July
Rupee’s new symbol status
India might not yet have cracked the G8, but it is joining an equally select financial group: those economies whose currencies have their own symbol.