Shipping Costs and Inflation with Yan Carrière-Swallow
Most of the goods we purchase travel across the oceans in steel containers aboard the largest ships ever to sail the seas. But the pandemic and ensuing lockdowns knocked the wind from their sails and ...
26 Touko 202214min
Alex Cobham on Tax Injustice
Economies grow better when they are more equal, and taxation is a powerful tool to help reduce inequalities. But increasingly, the international tax system is doing the opposite of that by allowing co...
18 Touko 202218min
ICRC's Peter Maurer on the Scourge of Fragility and Partnerships to Fight it
Fragility and conflict have forced hundreds of millions of people to live outside of state control without access to basic services. And with violent conflict on the rise, two-thirds of the world's po...
12 Touko 202226min
Women in Economics: Clair Brown's Holistic Approach
Becoming an economist in the 1970s- for a woman, was a lonely road. When Clair Brown joined the Department of Economics at UC Berkeley in 1974 alongside people like Nobel laureate George Akerlof, she ...
5 Touko 202221min
Perspectives pour l'Afrique subsaharienne: Nouveau choc, peu de marge de manœuvre
La reprise économique en Afrique subsaharienne a surpris à la hausse au second semestre 2021, mais ces progrès ont été compromis cette année par l'invasion russe de l'Ukraine. La guerre a déclenché un...
28 Huhti 202215min
Sub-Saharan Africa Outlook: New Shock, Little Room to Maneuver
The economic recovery in sub-Saharan Africa surprised on the upside in the second half of 2021, but that progress has been jeopardized this year by the Russian invasion of Ukraine. The war has trigger...
28 Huhti 202214min
Giovanni Peri on the Economic Impact of Ukrainian Migration
The war in Ukraine has sparked one of the biggest refugee crises of modern times. So, can Europe afford to accommodate the millions of people coming across its borders? Giovanni Peri says while a cris...
22 Huhti 202226min
Global Financial Stability: Implications of the War in Ukraine
While financial stability risks have risen on several fronts since the beginning of the war in Ukraine, the latest Global Financial Stability Report (GFSR) says no global systemic event affecting fina...
19 Huhti 202216min
