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Economists fail to appreciate adequately that people are fundamentally social creatures. Modern macroeconomics often seems to treat rapid and stable economic growth as the...

Blame economic fundamentals and poor policymaking for falling stock values. The recent dramatic declines in equity markets worldwide are a response to the interaction of two...

A benign interest-rate environment and sustainable growth paths can no longer be assumed. The global economy's most striking feature nowadays is the magnitude and...

The world economy will remain unusually fluid over the next three to five years. Colleagues from around the world recently gathered at PIMCO's headquarters in California...

Can Europe maintain its social model while raising its competitiveness? Some analysts think so. One major challenge for Europe is to maintain the European social model while...

Productivity in Europe's southern countries has fallen dramatically, and the steps being taken to help them catch up with performance in the north may not be enough. When...

Investment is vital to ensure the long-term prosperity of the eurozone. The rescue package for Portugal and the recent electoral success of the populist True Finns party...

No country of China's diversity has ever succeeded in doing what China intends to do – to acquire developed-country status. China is poised to begin its transition from...

Why restoring competitiveness and creating new jobs will be so hard for advanced economies. Since the end of the Second World War, the global economy's trade and financial...

Why Japan's decade was not ‘lost' – and what that tells us about the prospects for Europe's economies. The first decade of this century started with the so-called...

Why the EU is considering new approaches to poverty reduction. Economic growth is the principal driver of poverty reduction in Africa: that is the message coming from the...

Europe's leaders should learn from international rivals as they discuss the importance of innovation at their summit in Brussels this week. The European Union's current...

My generation is past its political expiration date. Having reached pensionable age, I qualify to be a grumpy old man. I should be boring my children, and the students at...

Economic forecasts predict an end to recession. The European Commission is to publish its interim economic forecasts on 14 September against a backdrop of economic data...

UNFPA: Addressing the Challenge of Climate Change

For years, Ireland was the boom baby of Europe, the golden child of economic liberalism. It grew fat on low taxes, generous friends and good fortune. Up close, the Celtic...

By 1957 the artillery emplacements in New Brighton, defending the strategically vital harbour of Liverpool, had been dismantled. Although small children still played on...

Investment bank Morgan Stanley has timed exquisitely its decision to name France “the new ‘sick man' of Europe”. The run-up to a bitterly contested presidential...

It is spring and suddenly the headlines are full of cheering economic news. German industrial confidence is at record levels and the government is raising its growth...

EURO-ZONE economic growth will slow from around 3.5% this year to just over 3% in 2001 as higher oil prices hit households' buying power and push up firms' costs, according...