What Does the New US Administration Mean for Business?
By William Hobbs, Head of Investment Strategy, UK and Europe, Barclays
How much of this new US administration’s often fluid and sometimes contradictory agenda should we...
Currency Depreciation Can Save an Economy in Crisis
By Ivan Illán
Amongst political and business leadership, there’s a popular bias that domestic currency depreciation and/or devaluation is negative for a nation’s economy. Instead,...
Changing Tides in International Trade
By Victor Andres Manhit
Although trade has played an important role in advancing economic growth, it has since lost its dynamism. Asian economies, however, have...
Time for African Economic Miracle
By Dan Steinbock
In the 20th century, Africa gained political independence but fell behind the economic boom. In the 21st century, it is Africa’s turn...
SADC Region Seeks to Accelerate Industrialisation amid Challenges in Mining and Energy
By Abayomi Azikiwe
Swaziland summit discusses economic crises in the sub-continent
The Republic of South Africa, the most industrialised state in the region, is still undergoing...
The Trump-Ryan Healthcare Act: Some Economic Consequences
By Jack Rasmus
While Republicans on the Right and the Far Right wrangle over whether to repeal the Obamacare Affordable Care Act (ACA), or just...
Le Pen-ization of France Europe’s Changing Landscape
By Dan Steinbock
In France, President Hollande’s utter failure to foster broad consensus for structural reforms has paved the way...
Trump – The Enigma
By Peter Koenig
In this article, Peter Koenig discusses a few of the bountiful contradictions and controversies of the new Trump Administration. The Donald, less...
United You Don’t Stand
From the Editors
The latest news about Israel is again about some on-going land grab. This is not new news. This has been going on...
Cracking the Arab World’s Development Puzzle: Oil or Politics?
By Ibrahim Elbadawi and Hoda Selim
Is the Arab World cursed by its own institutions rather than by oil wealth? These institutions, which have predated...
EDITOR'S PICK OF THE WEEK
China’s Challenging Search for a New Model of Economic Growth
By Danny Leipziger
China cannot continue to rely on exports to drive its growth, but what are the alternatives?
China ran a $1.2 trillion trade surplus last year, and despite admonitions from the IMF to rely...
