Breaking Through the Low-Income Ceiling

State-owned enterprises have long been viewed by economists as a bad idea due to proven inefficiencies and mismanagement. But is handing over key resources and industries to the private sector really the answer? Economic historian Nicholas Mulder says, with all the geopolitical r ...  Show more

The recent scramble for the minerals that go into our electric vehicles, solar panels, and defense systems has exposed vulnerabilities in the supply chains. Mineral markets are complex, spanning dozens of materials found around the world, but the real challenge is processing. Mor ...  Show more

L’économie du développement, c’est l’économie qui s’intéresse aux pays qui ont des niveaux de revenus par habitant relativement modestes. On a une classification en quatre niveaux de revenus : faibles, moyen-faibles, moyen-élevés et riches. Ou peut donc considérer que l’économie ...  Show more

Japan's economy has been stagnant for 2 decades, and while some economists look at this as an outlier, it might be something that just happens to all advanced economies, and Japan just got there first. After suffering the "lost generation", can Japan come back and recover growth, ...  Show more

Across the economy, the outlook is for slower growth.  Slower growth in demand, in employment, in profits and in inflation.  Recession is by no means certain.  However, a slow-growing economy is rather like a slow-moving bicycle – the slower its moves, the easier it is to topp ...

The past few years have been marked by two economic trends that have affected pretty much everyone on the planet. The first is the cost of living crisis that followed the Covid pandemic and was made worse by Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. That saw prices in the shops soar - in man ...  Show more