By combining open-source data and insights from transaction data, a new model is helping low-income areas attract much-needed investment. Here's how it works.

Shamina Singh 16 Jan 2020

Canada

NGOs and business can work together to achieve inclusive economic growth

The most effective solutions to bridge opportunity gaps can be found at the local level – and require all stakeholders to come to the table.

Darryl White 14 Jan 2020

Better Business

This is how to make stakeholder capitalism a reality

Swapping out shareholder primacy to focus on wider stakeholder interests could be the key in winning back public trust and giving big business a boost.

Laura Tyson and Lenny Mendonca · Project Syndicate 10 Jan 2020

Financial and Monetary Systems

Banks and government bonds: A love story

Private banks have been criticized in recent times for holding too much governmental domestic debt in recent times, but could there be an advantage to this practice?

Orkun Saka · VoxEU 08 Jan 2020

SDG 10: Reduced Inequalities

The hidden cost of free trade

This column combines data from 54 low and middle income countries to show how trade liberalisation increases both incomes and inequality - yet overall creates social welfare gains.

Erhan Artuc, Guido Porto, and Bob Rijkers · VoxEU 08 Jan 2020

International Trade and Investment

How US-China tensions are changing the game for global trade

A US block on new appointments to the WTO’s Appellate Body threatens to reshape the future of the organization.

John Letzing 19 Dec 2019

Emerging Technologies

Video killed the radio start: How digital platforms have reshaped the music industry

Next to cat videos, compilations of ‘fails’, and countless ‘life hacks’, about one third of available YouTube content consists of music videos – official clips, user-generated, cover vers...

Christian Peukert and Tobias Kretschmer · VoxEU 13 Dec 2019

SDG 10: Reduced Inequalities

The best solution for inequality? Economic growth

Living standards are not improving fast enough among those who are falling behind and are fueling much of the political tension across advanced economies today.

Michael J. Boskin · Project Syndicate 13 Dec 2019

International Trade and Investment

What is the relationship between free trade and economic volatility?

Economists continue to disagree about whether international trade exacerbates or diminishes volatility. This column presents firm-level evidence from French exporters and their European t...

Francis Kramarz, Julien Martin, and Isabelle Mejean · VoxEU 12 Dec 2019

SDG 05: Gender Equality

In the age of inequality, there is a need for sensible solutions

The rise of populist movements and street protests from Chile to France has made inequality a high priority in the world's rich democracies. But what type of inequality should policymaker...

Dani Rodrik · Project Syndicate 12 Dec 2019

Workforce and Employment

Is there a downside to showing to much passion at your work?

Steve Jobs reversed Apple's fortunes with a belief that passion can change the world. But it doesn't always work for everyone, according to research.

Dina Gerdeman · Quartz 11 Dec 2019

Financial and Monetary Systems

The 3 principles behind sound and sustainable national debt policy

Knowing whether public debt is sustainable is as critical for economists analysing fiscal policy as for practitioners tasked with charting desirable policy paths.

Xavier Debrun, Jonathan D. Ostry, and Tim Willems · VoxEU 11 Dec 2019

Banking and Capital Markets

Restoring central banks’ credibility

Without effective tools and the public's confidence, central banks will be unable to rise to the occasion when the next recession arrives.

Larry Hatheway · Project Syndicate 09 Dec 2019

Future of Economic Progress

Have economists solved this puzzle from the Great Recession?

Since the Great Recession, macroeconomists have been debating the alleged breakdown of the relationship between inflation and the output gap – also known as the Phillips curve.

Jesper Lindé and Mathias Trabandt · VoxEU 06 Dec 2019

International Trade and Investment

The impact of public debt on investment and growth

This column uses data of nearly 550,000 firms in 69 countries to show how government debt affects corporate investment.

Yi Huang, Ugo Panizza, and Richard Varghese · VoxEU 05 Dec 2019

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