ISN Weekly Theme: Charging the Future
Consumers aren’t the only ones maxing out their credit cards. Governments are funding stimulus packages in the hope of bringing their national economies back to life. But in today’s pensive economic...
View ArticleOccupy Finds Societal Alternatives Amid a Legitimacy Crisis
“Orthodoxy is experienced in debate and controversies, in those tacit agreements that are masked by overt disagreements.” – Ronen Palan, Global Political Economy: Contemporary Theories. With the...
View ArticleHow to Make Trade Easier
WASHINGTON, DC – The world is now in the fourth year of the Great Recession. So far, the economies belonging to the World Trade Organization have resisted the kind of widespread protectionism that...
View ArticleTwo Policy Prescriptions for the Global Crisis
WASHINGTON, DC – One thing that experts know, and that non-experts do not, is that they know less than non-experts think they do. This much was evident at the just-completed Spring Meetings of the...
View ArticleGermany, the Euro and the Euro Crisis
In a recent article, Alexander Reisenbichler and Kimberly J. Morgen argue that ‘Germany won the Euro Crisis’[i]. I doubt that any country can be the winner of a major economic crisis, especially if we...
View ArticleThe BRICs Party is Over
After a decade of infatuation, investors have suddenly turned their backs on emerging markets. In the BRIC countries – Brazil, Russia, India and China – growth rates have quickly fallen and...
View ArticleThe Perfect Storm: Mozambique’s Compounding Crises
This article was originally published by the Institute for Security Studies on 22 July 2016. A perfect storm is brewing in Mozambique as rocky economic and political fortunes stoke the embers of a...
View ArticleGDP Growth Forecast for Russia for 2020 and 2021 (% yoy)
This graphic breaks down the GDP growth forecast for Russia in 2020 and 2021. Forecasts range from slightly negative values to -6 percent. The drastic economic consequences of the quarantine measures...
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