Tag Archive for: "economic policy"
Thirty years of APEC summits

The APEC summit in San Francisco this week offers poignant echoes and painful contrasts with the first summit in Seattle 30 years ago. Asia–Pacific Economic Cooperation is always ‘four adjectives in search of a noun’, …

Towards a functional global order

World leaders attending the International Monetary Fund and World Bank annual meetings in Marrakesh this week have some difficult decisions to make. For starters, numerous developing economies—including Egypt, Ethiopia, Ghana, Kenya, Pakistan, Sri Lanka, Tunisia, …

The EU needs fiscal union

European economic policymakers have had a packed schedule lately. First, the European Central Bank’s governing council gathered to deliberate on what would become its 10th consecutive interest-rate hike. Then, the European Union’s Economic and Financial …