This week’s issue of includes: Key Global and Regional Developments over the Past Week Special Analysis Developments in Financial and Commodity Markets in the Past Week
Overview: A bold history of the rise of central banks, showing how institutions designed to steady the ship of global finance have instead become as destabilizing as they are dominant.While central banks have gained remarkable influence over the past fifty years, promising more stability, global finance has gone from crisis to crisis. How do we […]
This week’s issue of includes: Key Global and Regional Developments over the Past Week Special Analysis Developments in Financial and Commodity Markets in the Past Week
Overview: A stellar cast of economists examines the roles of creative destruction in addressing today’s most important political and social questions.Inequality is rising, growth is stagnant while rents accumulate, the environment is suffering, and the COVID-19 pandemic exposed every crack in the systems of global capitalism. How can we restart growth? Can our societies be […]
Our Views South African President Cyril Ramaphosa said that Argentina, Egypt, Ethiopia, Iran, Saudi Arabia and the UAE are invited to become members of the BRICS group. For more details and full views, download the document below
This week’s issue of includes: Key Global and Regional Developments over the Past Week Special Analysis Developments in Financial and Commodity Markets in the Past Week
Overview: While it is widely agreed that neoliberalism arose in the wake of the global economic crisis of the 1970s, there remains much debate about how to understand its significance and even how to define it. Is it best seen as an ideology of free market fundamentalism, a series of policy decisions gutting the public […]
This week’s issue of includes: Key Global and Regional Developments over the Past Week Special Analysis Developments in Financial and Commodity Markets in the Past Week
Our Views Egypt’s “non-oil” merchandise exports declined in H1 of this year by 17% to about $16 billion compared to $19.3 billion a year ago, according to an official government statement to “Iqtisad Al-Sharq.” Egypt’s merchandise exports reached $35.61 billion last year despite difficult global conditions, an increase of 12% compared to 2021. The official, […]
Overview: What can the fall of Rome teach us about the decline of the West today? A historian and a political economist, both experts in their field, investigate This is not the first time the global order has witnessed such a dramatic rise and fall. The Roman Empire followed a similar arc from dizzying power […]