The EU Competitiveness Compass: How the EU Plans to Beat China and the US
Yesterday, January 29, the European Commission announced the release of "A Competitiveness Compass for the EU." The “days of relying ...
Tag: Economic growth
Why Sanctions on Russia Don’t Work
As soon as the Ukraine war started, in February 2022, the West's unanimous response was sanctions. They were supposed to ...
How AI Will Affect Business
In a revealing snapshot of executive perspectives, PwC's latest survey of over 4,700 CEOs worldwide provides a nuanced outlook on ...
2024 Growth to Slow Down, Inflation to Decline
The United Nations (UN) Department of Economic and Social Affairs (DESA) issued the 2024 edition of its flagship World Economic ...
Towards a Manifesto For Restrainability
Too often abused by governments and corporations in the deflective strategy of greenwashing, the concept of “sustainability” has now become ...
Can an Economy Grow While Carbon Emissions Decrease? Europe Shows How
Through data published by Eurostat, the EU's statistical office, on May 15 the European Union (EU) announced the achievement of ...
Is the UN Leading the World to a Path Beyond Planetary Boundaries?
In 2018, 238 scientists and 100,000 persons endorsed a letter demanding that the European Union and its Member States “plan ...
Climate Change and Economic Growth: Will the New Asia Pacific Economic Engine Go Green?
A report published by Deloitte Economic Institute, “The Turning Point”, has found that climate change inaction would negatively impact economic ...
The Lesson from Easter Island
When our human systems, be it agricultural, energy, social, political, or economic are not serving us anymore, we need to ...
Resilience-building: A Paradigm Change in Development Aid
Karamoja, Uganda: a low investment, high impact initiative According to conventional wisdom, development aid requires massive investments to spur economic ...
Is South Africa’s B-BBEE Policy Really That Black and White?
Broad-Based Black Economic Empowerment (B-BBEE) is a policy in South Africa that aims to rebalance the racial socio-economic disparities that ...
