Digital trade has grown very fast in recent years, not least because of Covid-19 and its push to do online business. The pandemic, according to one news story, “has accelerated digitalization and...

This piece was co-authored with Isabel Pérez del Puerto, a journalist and communicator in financing for development.  “The king is an attacking piece, use it!” said the Austrian chess...

The response of the West to the Russian war in Ukraine has been to isolate the Russian economy. And although it might seem like they have been successful, given the scale and severity of the...

This piece was co-authored with Isabel Pérez del Puerto, a journalist and communicator in financing for development.  In the last quarter of 2021, fear of Covid-19 was temporarily overtaken by...

Few books have had such an influence as Francis Fukuyama’s The End of History and the Last Man from 1992: it profoundly shaped the way that many people in the West thought about the period that...

One can imagine Commission President Ursula von der Leyen being in a good mood approaching her state of the union address, vaccine roll-out having turned into a success and a busy programme of...

If international trade had a Facebook profile, its status would be ‘in an open relationship’. On average, a country trades goods with 164 other countries and these goods are bought and sold by...

‘Buy American’, ‘Dual Circulation’, ‘Strategic Autonomy’ – these, and similar ideas, have been around or in gestation for some time.  They are based on governments’ assessments...

In the movie “Gold”, a small, struggling mining entrepreneur looking for gold goes from bankruptcy to a 6 billion dollar mining empire, and then bankruptcy again. Bear with me, there is a link...

If there were to be another pandemic, what would you have done differently? This question should be at the front of any policy-maker. Covid-19 has been costly but some countries have coped better...