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

Latin America

Inequality triggered protests across Latin America. Here's how the youth can help

The thunderous “Cacerolazo” of protestors across the continent banging pots and pans was propelled by a hunger for social justice.

Enrique Crespo Peñaherrera and David Morales Olalla 08 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

Future of Economic Progress

Leaders who study economics are better at driving GDP growth, study shows

In a study of 146 countries from 1950 to 2014, on average GDP per capita grew by 1.53% in the year after countries transitioned from incumbents with a non-economic backgrounds to one with...

Joseph Paul · Futurity 12 Dec 2019

Future of Economic Progress

Here's what happened when a charity gave $1,000 each to poor households in Kenya

Research into one nonprofit organization’s long-running cash transfer program showed how a universal basic income (UBI) can transform developing economies.

Sean Fleming 04 Dec 2019

Public Finance and Social Protection

The connection between financial globalisation and rising inequality

Rodrik (1998) famously wrote that capital flowing freely across the world would leave economies “hostage to the whims and fancies of two dozen or so thirty-somethings in London, Frankfurt...

Davide Furceri, Prakash Loungani, and Jonathan D. Ostry · VoxEU 04 Dec 2019

Digital Economy and Society

How the Red Cross is using blockchain to help disaster-prone communities

"Those kind of loops are what economies are built on. If they're not there, you end up with the chronic cycle of the Red Cross giving aid every three years because it's not building commu...

Laurie Goering · Thomson Reuters Foundation trust.org 27 Nov 2019

European Union

Why Europe needs its own development bank

At a time of increasing uncertainty, growing international threats, and fundamental challenges to multilateralism, we need solid institutions more than ever.

Erik Berglöf · Project Syndicate 26 Nov 2019

India

How public private partnerships must evolve to create social impact

A “people first” approach will benefit communities, and bring lead nations one step closer to achieving the SDGs.

Chirag Jain 25 Nov 2019

Global Economic Imbalances

This is why financial inclusion is vital for better equality in Europe and Central Asia

As recently as 2017, around 116 million adults in the region still had no bank account, with almost 60% of the unbanked in the region are women.

Cyril Muller and Asli Demirgüç-Kunt · World Bank 22 Nov 2019

Future of Economic Progress

Millennials are the first UK 30-somethings to earn less than past generations

Incomes have risen for generations since the 1930s, until now. This UK study reflects an international trend.

Andrea Willige 19 Nov 2019

Fragility, Violence and Conflict

The economics of neutral countries during World War 2

In order to maintain their independence in WWII, neutrals had to make up for their relative military weakness by offering economic concessions to the belligerents.

Eric Golson · VoxEU 13 Nov 2019

Gender Parity

This is how Estonia is growing its population

Is paying people to have babies the answer to declining populations?

Katharine Rooney 12 Nov 2019

European Union

2 spaces need filling on the ECB Executive Board - who's in the running?

The European Central Bank has two vacant positions for the executive board, but who will fill them? The members must be able to influence the ECB on policy decisions to make a broader agr...

Stefan Gerlach · Project Syndicate 08 Oct 2019

Public Finance and Social Protection

Here's how monetary policy can stabilize a volatile economy

In a volatile world of booms and busts in asset prices, how and why should we use monetary policy?

Vladimir Asriyan and Luca Fornaro · VoxEU 01 Oct 2019

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