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National statistical offices and international organisations are busy revising down their growth forecasts for Europe this year and next. Although they are...

Will the European Parliament elections this May result in a political revolution? Populist and nationalist parties certainly hope so. They are promising not...

Nelson Mandela once said, “Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world.” Education does not just enable individuals to...

As the trade cycle turns, so goes the global economy. But there is a new twist. With growth in global trade sharply diminished since the 2008-2009 global...

With the recent signing of the Treaty of Aachen, French President Emmanuel Macron and German Chancellor Angela Merkel have renewed the Franco-German...

Our current diets are bad for our health and are harming the planet. Two billion people are now overweight or obese. Poor diet is the biggest cause of...

In his influential 1954 article “Economic Development with Unlimited Supplies of Labour,” the future Nobel laureate economist Arthur Lewis concluded...

Although global economic growth is expected to slow down in 2019 amid the challenges resulting from a decline in trade and industry, structural reforms by...

There is not a country in the world that is not grappling with the serious health and environmental consequences of their people’s diets. There has to be...

Last Friday, a wave of relief spread across the United States. A completely pointless and highly damaging partial government shutdown was over....