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The answer to job losses is not economic protectionism, but a strengthening of workers’ rights.
If educated women are discriminated against in their home country, they will take their skills elsewhere.
How to measure the real impact of green bonds? As France is issuing its first green bonds, the market in the global south could expand fast this year.
The success of the first phase prompted financial observers to hail Indonesia’s tax amnesty program as one of the most successful in the world.
The agreement could be as good as dead, if, instead of pushing ahead without the US, its members decide to explore bilateral trade agreements with the country.
With its uncharismatic president and liberalising economy, Cuba already looks less like North Korea and more like China or Vietnam.
The arguments for an universal basic income have emerged from a rising disillusionment in classic economics and expectations of more security.
Is this the beginning of a ‘Mexican Spring’?
We could be witnessing the beginning of globalisation going in reverse.
Objects of almost any shape or geometry can be produced by 3D printing. The technology could seriously disrupt not just manufacturing but related national plans for economic development.
Venezuela and ExxonMobil have been spatting over oil for decades. How will that history impact relations under a Rex Tillerson-run State Department?
Empty toy stores, bakeries without bread and families who can’t travel to be together. This is the year that the government Grinch stole Christmas.
Bhutan and Nepal could change economic development in South Asia, thanks to their hydropower potential.
Brazil should ask itself which is more important: having a roof over your head or owning the roof over your head?
Fallout from the Volkswagen case shows how scandals can give virtuous organisations a competitive edge and help industries evolve.
A deal intended to help southern African countries develop could instead turn them into an EU dumping ground for cheap goods.
Research into banks’ charitable activities shows a strong interest in disclosing donations made the the ruling family’s causes.
India is engulfed in chaos after Prime Minister Narendra Modi introduced the wrong policy at the wrong time.
A powerful diesel lobby and fragmented class action laws put EU consumers at a disadvantage.
Do Mexico’s lowest earners need a big raise?
A stalled Trans-Pacific Partnership opens the way for China, which was excluded from the agreement, to assume leadership in regional economic integration efforts in the Asia-Pacific.
Job prospects are not good for newly arrived refugees in Sweden. But better integration programmes will help.
The African continent appears to have the most remarkable potential for growth and transformation, but can it be sustainable?
The world braces for Donald Trump’s brand of` trade protectionism, which will send shockwaves through the global economy.