Alberto Forchielli is to splash two-thirds of 1 billion euros, made available by Mandarin Capital Partners private equity fund, to acquire German companies in a bid to fuel world economic growth.
In Shanghai, the Chinese government recently launched a fund of 50 billion Yuan – the equivalent of 6.3 billion euro – with which it aims to purchase overseas companies. 
Any private equity firm wishing to compete …

The British academic and development practitioner Robert Chambers, in his book Rural Development: Putting the Last First, wrote in 1983:                                                                                         
Rural …