Browse
Latest Publications
Immigration: An Opportunity for the European Union
The debate in Europe on migration, and its impact on employment, is lively but often painfully misguided. Increasing unemployment and the euro crisis...
Beyond Dutch Disease: When Deteriorating Rule of Law affects Russian Trade in High-Tech Goods and Services with Advanced Economies
How does Russia’s deterioration of its rule of law in recent years affect its ability to move away from an export pattern dominated by natural...
The Meaning of the Unsaid: The New Eurozone Deal in Perspective
Expectations were low as European leaders gathered in Brussels on Thursday last week for yet another summit to deal with an escalation of the crisis....
The Eurozone’s Arrested Adolescence: Sketching a Way Out of the Crisis
The Eurozone crisis has been reinforced and prolonged by leaders’ inability to agree on robust and credible crisis responses. Individual...
Aid for Trade is Reaching its Limits, so What’s Next?
The Aid for Trade Initiative has reached its limits and is in a need to be revamped. This article describes the political economy that led to the...
Will Asia Shape or Shake the World Economy?
Asia’s economic rise has changed the world economy – and will continue to do so in the future as well. George Magnus in his policy brief claims...
High Noon in Europe’s Financial Regulatory Agenda
“Is the chicken now coming home to rooster?”, asked a senior bank executive at a recent conference on European bank regulations. After four years...
Revisiting the “Cotton Problem”—A Comparative Analysis of Cotton Reforms in sub-Saharan Africa
The cotton sector has been among the most regulated in sub-Saharan Africa (SSA), and still largely is in West and Central Africa (WCA), despite...