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Tinkering with a Spanish Proposal

It is an idea that just refuses to die. Mere days after a Dutch-led cabal of northern Eurozone finance ministers…

6 years ago

PwC Nigeria: Nigeria’s Finance Act Gets a Facelift to Attract Business and Investment

Earlier this year, Nigerian president Muhammadu Buhari signed the Finance Bill 2019 into law as the Finance Act of 2019…

6 years ago

Making Sense of Irrational Markets and Conflicting Data

This is how an economy is destroyed: ignore small businesses because small isn’t beautiful but complicated, cumbersome, risky, and a…

6 years ago

Dull but Sound: Ordoliberalism to the Rescue

A hallmark of quality recognised the world over, ‘Made in Germany’ represents a welcome victory of content over hype. The…

6 years ago

Lessons from China

For the first time in nearly half a century China’s economy has stopped growing. The National Bureau of Statistics (NBS)…

6 years ago

The Great Lockdown and Echoes from the Past

The brief and uneventful interlude that followed the Great Recession of 2007-13 has been supplanted by the Great Lockdown of…

6 years ago

Debt Relief Needed to Preserve 30 Years of Progress

A grand coalition of creditors is to provide debt relief to the world’s least developed countries. Earlier this week, the…

6 years ago

SDG Lab at UN Geneva: Delivering the 2030 Agenda in Decade of Action Will Call for Co-operation and Courage

In 2020, to mark its 75th anniversary, the United Nations have initiated UN75, the largest and most inclusive global conversation…

6 years ago

Raining on China’s Parade

Sensing a unique opportunity to take a shortcut to the global top spot, China is putting in a sustained effort…

6 years ago

The Final Destiny of the Trillions

When the going gets though, the weak are moved aside. A depressingly large number of the 181 US corporations that…

6 years ago