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The future is Africa: Shaping AI-enabled EdTech for skilling the next generation

By 2050, one in three of the world’s children will live in Africa. Yet this demographic shift coincides with a…

2 weeks ago

The risk of tariffs as a tool to attract manufacturing investment

Recent tariff increases have sparked a debate over whether trade protectionism can effectively attract foreign investment. This column analyses how…

3 weeks ago

Two decades of Chinese industrial subsidies

China's industrial policy has become a central flashpoint in global trade debates, yet systematic evidence on what China actually does…

3 weeks ago

Drivers of international primary income balances

Financial globalisation has been a central feature of the world economy since the mid 1990s, leading to large holdings of…

3 weeks ago

The digital euro: Awareness, adoption, and household portfolios

Several central banks, including the European Central Bank (ECB), are pursuing plans to potentially introduce a central bank digital currency…

3 weeks ago

Accommodating emerging giants in the global economy

History provides examples of large changes in the relative economic size of nations. Often these economic realignments coincide with heightened…

3 weeks ago

Big cities and globalization

Globalisation has been one of the key economic forces of the past half-century. It is credited with lifting millions of…

3 weeks ago

The state of competition: Why market power has risen – and why antitrust alone won’t fix it

There is intense debate over the origins and implications of rising market power and declining business dynamism across developed economies.…

3 weeks ago

The paradox of perfect supervision

Each financial crisis brings more financial supervision, more models and larger buffers – but still fragility persists. The paradox of…

3 weeks ago

A nonlinear Phillips curve helps explain the inflation overshoot

The recent high-inflation episode generated renewed interest among monetary policymakers and academics about the slope of the Phillips curve and…

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