Global Economy

Activists stage a protest on a mock tropical island beach representing a tax haven outside a meeting of European Union finance ministers in Brussels, Belgium, December 5, 2017. REUTERS/Francois Lenoir

Did the EU’s attempt to name and shame tax havens into behaving better work?

Thursday, June 25, 2020

Activists stage a protest on a mock tropical island beach representing a tax haven outside a meeting of European Union finance ministers in Brussels, Belgium, December 5, 2017. REUTERS/Francois Lenoir

Does the threat of being blacklisted change behavior?

Thursday, June 25, 2020

A customer at a money transfer point that offers money transfer services through Wari and other transfer companies in Dakar, Senegal March 15, 2017. Picture taken March 15, 2017. REUTERS/Nellie Peyton

Figure of the week: Remittance flows to sub-Saharan Africa expected to slow after years of growth

Thursday, June 25, 2020

An employee examines recycled plastic flakes after a wet recycle process at the Mr.Green plastic recycling factory in Nairobi, Kenya, June 25, 2018. Picture taken June 25, 2018.REUTERS/Baz Ratner

Africa is more resilient than you think

Thursday, June 25, 2020

World Trade Organization headquarters

Reviving the WTO

Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala

Monday, June 22, 2020

Illustration of coronavirus and money

How the pandemic should shake up economics

Monday, June 22, 2020

Latin America after COVID-19: A conversation with OAS Secretary-General Luis Almagro

10:00 AM - 11:00 AM EDT

A worker holds a hoe as they remove weed at a farm amid the spread of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19), in Eikenhof, South Africa, April 16, 2020. Picture taken April 16, 2020. REUTERS/Siphiwe Sibeko

Economic impact of COVID-19: Protecting Africa’s food systems from farm to fork

Jennifer Blanke

Friday, June 19, 2020

People watch supplies distribution from their balconies in Roma community in Podgorica amid coronavirus disease (COVID-19) fears, Montenegro March 29, 2020. REUTERS/Stevo Vasiljevic

Will COVID-19 create a new surge in poverty in the Western Balkans?

Jamele Rigolini, Marc Tobias Schiffbauer, and Edith Kikoni

Friday, June 19, 2020

A freight train of China COSCO Shipping Co., Ltd. running from Nanchang to Moscow is pictured before departing from a railway station in Nanchang city, east China's Jiangxi province, 20 Apil 2018.East China's Jiangxi province has launched a new freight train route to Russia. A train carrying clothes, electrical products and suitcases left Nanchang city on Friday (20 April 2018) for Moscow. It is the first freight train linking the city with Europe. The 10,000-kilometer trip will take 15 days, and run every week from June, according to local railway authorities. The new freight route will promote the foreign trade of Nanchang city. Demand for rail freight between China and Europe, an alternative to slower and riskier ocean shipping and costlier air cargo, has exploded in recent years.No Use China. No Use France.

On the changing asymmetry of global spillovers

Rabah Arezki and Yang Liu

Friday, June 19, 2020