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• 28-Nov-16

  Set to breach targets again? Debt and deficit outlooks for Southern European Eurozone countries in 2016 & 2017

  After dragging Greece kicking and screaming through a never-ending vicious cycle of fiscal adjustment and output decline, the European Commission...
• 24-Nov-16

  What does Donald Trump mean for the U.S. economy?

  Donald Trump will take power in January and will govern a U.S. economy that is in its seventh year of...
• 22-Nov-16

  How will emerging markets perform in 2017?

  After a difficult 2015, the emerging markets have fortunately not decelerated as initially feared this year. Economic growth has been supported in...
• 17-Nov-16

  The economic impact of a break in U.S.-Philippines ties

  In an unexpected yet not entirely surprising turn of events, Philippines President Rodrigo Duterte continued his anti-U.S. rhetoric in late October by...
• 15-Nov-16

  Trump election: Base metals surge due to infrastructure plan

  On 4 July 1837, Ralph Waldo Emerson’s poem Concord Hymn was read at the unveiling of the Concord Monument in Massachusetts to commemorate...
• 10-Nov-16

  5 updates on the Venezuelan economic crisis

  It has been a few weeks since our last Venezuelan economy update and economist Jean-Philippe Pourcelot has a new post discussing five updates on...
• 9-Nov-16

  Canada: When your neighbor’s house is on fire…

  Morning sickness hit global markets this morning, as the world begins to digest the political earthquake that took place yesterday....
• 8-Nov-16

  Short-term pain before long-term gain? A look at French labor reform and economic growth

  The French economy has come under the spotlight again after disappointing GDP growth in the third quarter. Even the French...
• 25-Oct-16

  Asia: Unremarkable growth & unfulfilled promises?

  Is Asia’s economy stabilizing? Will Asia ever fulfill its promise of being the driving engine for global growth? Will China...
• 24-Oct-16

  How India’s latest monsoon is affecting the economy

  Click the image to open full-size infographic "A stronger monsoon should drive up rural income and add to the already...