Global Economy

Jihan Abass, founder and CEO of Griffin Insurance, holds her phone as she displays an insurance product under Griffin Motor app as they prepare to release their flagship digital-only car insurance company, in Nairobi, Kenya January 24, 2020. REUTERS/Jackson Njehia

Figures of the week: African insurance market poised for growth

Leo Holtz and Chris Heitzig

Wednesday, March 3, 2021

Telkom Kenya CEO Mugo Kibati uses his cell phone to test the Loon technology internet via video call as Alphabet Inc begins offering the world's first commercial high-speed internet using balloons to villagers in Radad, Baringo County, Kenya July 8, 2020. REUTERS/Jackson Njehia

Shared failure, shared success: Africa’s economic recovery must be structural

Lerang Selolwane

Tuesday, March 2, 2021

Japan's Economy, Trade and Industry Minister Hiroshi Kajiyama speaks to media after attending Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership, RCEP, meetingheld via video conference on Nov. 15, 2020. ( The Yomiuri Shimbun )

Trading places: America, Japan, and regional trade

The Asia Chessboard

Monday, March 1, 2021

Cape Town, South Africa - August 2020: Car filling up gas at gas station in South Africa. Petrol station during fuel increase. Close up of Gas Pump. African Petrol Station.

Recipe for a green recovery: Carbon taxes

Gunnar Köhlin, Ira Dorband, Jan Christoph Steckel, and Thomas Sterner

Monday, March 1, 2021

Chagrin Falls, Ohio / USA - October 29, 2017: Rainy Evening View of Starbucks, Jeni's, and Outfitters Shops on Main Street in the Business District of Historical Downtown Chagrin Falls, Ohio

Small Business Green Recovery Fund to power US climate transition

Addisu Lashitew

Monday, March 1, 2021

A teller counts U.S. notes at the Dahabshill money transfer office in capital Mogadishu February 16, 2015. Somalia's prime minister last week urged the U.S. government and U.S. banks to support money transfer firms that offer a lifeline for many in the war-torn Horn of Africa nation. About 40 percent of all Somali families rely on remittances from another country, and the estimated annual total of $1.3 billion is more than all foreign aid and investment in Somalia combined. Funds sent back home to Somalia are crucial for many families and businesses in a country that lacks a proper financial system due to the years of fighting. REUTERS/Omar Faruk (SOMALIA - Tags: BUSINESS POLITICS)

Modeling remittances flows with web scraping

Jesús Crespo Cuaresma and Max Thomasberger

Friday, February 26, 2021

Cover of "Climbing a High Ladder - Development in the Global Economy" (Source: Policy Center for the New South)

Climbing a High Ladder – Development in the Global Economy

By Otaviano Canuto

2021

A maze of crude oil pipes and valves is pictured during a tour by the Department of Energy at the Strategic Petroleum Reserve in Freeport, Texas, U.S. June 9, 2016. REUTERS/Richard Carson - S1AETIZMOIAB

Seizing opportunities for fuel subsidy reform

Victoria Bassetti and Kelsey Landau

Thursday, February 25, 2021

Sierra Leonean security forces supervise the crew on board the Marampa 803, a vessel apprehended for alleged illegal fishing activities, that has been moored off the West African country's capital Freetown January 21, 2012. West Africa, recognized as one of the world's richest fisheries grounds teeming with snapper, grouper, sardines, mackerel and shrimp, loses up to $1.5 billion worth of fish each year to vessels fishing in protected zones or without proper equipment or licenses. Widespread corruption and a continuing lack of resources for enforcement mean huge foreign trawlers often venture into areas near the coast that are reserved exclusively for artisanal fishermen, allowing them to drag off tonnes of catch and putting at risk the livelihoods of millions of local people. Picture taken January 21, 2012. To match Feature WESTAFRICA-FISHING/ REUTERS/Simon Akam (SIERRA LEONE - Tags: SOCIETY BUSINESS ENVIRONMENT FOOD ANIMALS)

Measuring the global impact of destructive and illegal fishing on maritime piracy: A spatial analysis

Raj M. Desai and George E. Shambaugh

Thursday, February 25, 2021

Cover of "The Political Economy of Japan and Abenomics Reform"

The Political Economy of the Abe Government and Abenomics Reforms

Contributions by Adam P. Liff

2021