Africa needs to navigate the difficult economic waters that lie ahead without undoing the gains of the past two decades. Success will require difficult political choices.
The economic uncertainty index shows there is still a need for strong policy responses to events that shock the economy.
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The Reserve Bank of Australia has created a new index for uncertainty in the Australian economy based on news, financial indicators and economic variables.
A study in resilience.
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A Greek default and exit from the eurozone might cost the UK the odd billion here and there, but the real risks are in a nervous banking sector and the devastating potential of Brexit.
Is Jeb Bush’s 4% growth promise too good to be true?
Reuters
Jeb Bush recently announced his candidacy for president by declaring that “our country is on a very bad course” and promised to fix this with the striking promise of “4% growth, and the 19 million new…
The icons of state funding could submerge the rest.
Simon & His Camera
Imagine a radically shrunken economy with 45% of all national income reserved for the state and you’ve just scratched the surface of the Greens’ economic vision.