The Duterte Whirlwind: The Reawakening of the Philippines

The Duterte Whirlwind: The Reawakening of the Philippines

Derisking Threatens Caribbean Banking Sector and Trade

Derisking Threatens Caribbean Banking Sector and Trade

What If Clinton Wins

What If Clinton Wins

Global Outlook: The Next Five Years

Global Outlook: The Next Five Years

Global outlook: the next five years Alessandro Magnoli Bocchi Key takeaway – Over the next five years, mega-trends will not support an acceleration of global…

Alessandro Magnoli Bocchi

Capital Flows and Financial Activity in Commodity Exporters

Capital Flows and Financial Activity in Commodity Exporters

photo: Nic Taylor Emerging markets and developing economies have struggled in recent years to regain the growth rates of the last decade before the global financial…

Joseph P. Joyce

Italy at the Brink: From Renzi’s Referendum to Italexit?

Italy at the Brink: From Renzi’s Referendum to Italexit?

photo: Davide Oliva Europe’s Summer of Discontent In the aftermath of the Brexit tensions, Italy is defying Brussels to bail out troubled…

Tales of Emerging Markets
Emerging market economies (EM) as a special class of financial assets have recently been subject to two competing tales. On…

Otaviano Canuto and Aleksandr V. Gevorkyan
Monetary Exhaustion Means Rising Gold Prices
As non-traditional monetary policies in advanced economies are likely to eclipse, investors will increasingly turn to gold to hedge their…

Dan Steinbock
Venture Capital: Driving Economic Growth
Startups and scale-ups create the vast majority of jobs in the formal economy, providing, on average, 66 percent of jobs…

Yuri Soares, Susana Garcia-Robles and Sandro Diez Amigo
The Europe of Peoples Destroys Itself
photo: Peter Kurdulija On reading the deluge of comments on the outcome of the “Brexit” referendum, you may notice that there…

Roberto Tamborini
Chinese Growth Staying Close to Target, Despite Bleak Global Prospects
photo: Thomas Depenbusch Assuming no surprises in the second half of the year, China’s growth in 2016 will remain near…

Dan Steinbock
Bank of Russia: 25 years of Regulating Currency and Bank Crises
photo: Tim@SW2008 This year Russia will celebrate the 25th anniversary of the Belavezha Accords signed by Boris Yeltsin at the end…

Samvel Lazaryan and Ivan Nikonov
Time for Bold Economic Moves and Tough Security in Nigeria
photo: Global Panorama As Nigeria’s economy is contracting, domestic and global headwinds ensure that downside risks will escalate. Without aggressive…

Dan Steinbock

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What If Clinton Wins

What If Clinton Wins

photo: Getty Images According to polls, the race to…

Why Helicopter Money is a “Free Lunch”

Why Helicopter Money is a “Free Lunch”

A hot topic[1] Claudio Borio and colleagues (2016) have…

RGE’s Harris on The Fed, U.S. Economics, & Helicopter Money [AUDIO]

RGE’s Harris on The Fed, U.S. Economics, & Helicopter Money [AUDIO]

Roubini Global Economics’s Kevin Harris, Director of RGE’s…

US 2016 Election Is a Global Risk

US 2016 Election Is a Global Risk

photo: PID As America is struggling amid a historical…

Capital Flows and Financial Activity in Commodity Exporters

Capital Flows and Financial Activity in Commodity Exporters

photo: Nic Taylor Emerging markets and developing economies have struggled…

Joseph P. Joyce

Brazil at the Crossroads

Brazil at the Crossroads

With the impeachment of President Dilma Roussseff being sent…

Otaviano Canuto, Samuel George and Cornelius Fleischhaker

Turkey: The Banking Sector Needs Profitability-Enhancing Reforms

Turkey: The Banking Sector Needs Profitability-Enhancing Reforms

photo: Jeremy Vandel Key takeaway – Turkey’s economy remains resilient,…

Alessandro Magnoli Bocchi and Pablo Gallego Cuervo

Despite Political Headwinds, Turkey’s Economy Remains Resilient

Despite Political Headwinds, Turkey’s Economy Remains Resilient

photo: Moyan Brenn Key takeaway – Global and local tensions…

Alessandro Magnoli Bocchi and Pablo Gallego Cuervo

Brexit, Migration, and Increasing Economic Diversity Within the European Union

Brexit, Migration, and Increasing Economic Diversity Within the European Union

photo: Rich Girard Migration is a sensitive issue today in…

Thomas Grennes and Andris Strazds

Why the EU-China Summit Must Succeed

Why the EU-China Summit Must Succeed

photo: European External Action Service The annual China-EU Summit is…

The Impact of Financial Globalization on the Brexit Vote

The Impact of Financial Globalization on the Brexit Vote

photo: freestocks.org The reasons for the majority vote in favor…

Joseph P. Joyce

Brexitology

photo: muffinn A generation ago, in the second half of…

Grzegorz W. Kolodko

China’s Devastating Floods: From Adaptation to Mitigation

China’s Devastating Floods: From Adaptation to Mitigation

photo: LanguageTeaching After weeks of torrential rain across central and…

Time for Reset and Realism in the South China Sea

Time for Reset and Realism in the South China Sea

photo: U.S. Pacific Fleet After the South China Sea arbitration…

Hong Kong’s Choice Between Hope and Despair

Hong Kong’s Choice Between Hope and Despair

photo: Long CHUNG Today, Hong Kong faces great economic uncertainty…

Advanced Manufacturing May Change the Rules of Economic Development

Advanced Manufacturing May Change the Rules of Economic Development

photo: Tecnalia As advanced manufacturing is about to accelerate in…

Five Lessons from the Expansion of the Panama Canal

Five Lessons from the Expansion of the Panama Canal

Many aspects of the Panama Canal expansion make it…

Suriname: Facing the Storm with a Correction of Course

Suriname: Facing the Storm with a Correction of Course

photo: Nicolas Raymond Suriname is facing twin – external and…

Otaviano Canuto

Venezuela: Crisis in Caracas

Venezuela: Crisis in Caracas

photo: Rainforest Action Network Venezuela’s rich oil resources, once a…

Empowering Community Forests in the Fight Against Climate Change

Empowering Community Forests in the Fight Against Climate Change

When most people think about climate change, the first…

Ben Hodgdon and Gregory Watson

The Duterte Whirlwind: The Reawakening of the Philippines

The Duterte Whirlwind: The Reawakening of the Philippines

photo: canencia The new Philippine president is waging a tough…

Global Outlook: The Next Five Years

Global Outlook: The Next Five Years

Global outlook: the next five years Alessandro Magnoli Bocchi…

Alessandro Magnoli Bocchi

Turkey’s Failed Coup: What’s Next?

Turkey’s Failed Coup: What’s Next?

photo: RadikalBlog Key takeaway – In Turkey, a coup…

Alessandro Magnoli Bocchi and Pablo Gallego Cuervo

The Saudi Arabia Oil Shock: Crisis and Opportunity for Economic Reform

The Saudi Arabia Oil Shock: Crisis and Opportunity for Economic Reform

photo: L.C. Nøttaasen The Saudi Arabian economy has been jolted…

Thomas Grennes and Andris Strazds

Derisking Threatens Caribbean Banking Sector and Trade

Derisking Threatens Caribbean Banking Sector and Trade

Allan Wright, country economist for The Bahamas at the…

The Rise of Social Enterprise Accelerators

The Rise of Social Enterprise Accelerators

The drive some have to solve a social or…

Amparo de San José and Ignacio Fernandez Admetlla

The Challenge and the Opportunity of Private Sector Climate Resilience

The Challenge and the Opportunity of Private Sector Climate Resilience

Toward a Private Framing of Climate Resilience How does…

Challenges Women Face in Managing Public-Private Partnerships

Challenges Women Face in Managing Public-Private Partnerships

All around the world, women are taking leadership roles…

Andrea Arzaba Diaz and Dennis Blumenfeld

The Market for Climate Resilience: Hidden in Plain Sight?

The Market for Climate Resilience: Hidden in Plain Sight?

Households, businesses, and communities everywhere are vulnerable to a…

The Circular Economy: Butterflies and the Fourth Industrial Revolution

The Circular Economy: Butterflies and the Fourth Industrial Revolution

photo: Ellen MacArthur Foundation A butterfly sums it up: It can…

Estrella Peinado-Vara

Ensuring Water Access in the Face of Climate Change

Ensuring Water Access in the Face of Climate Change

Actors across a watershed often have very different needs,…

Yuri Soares, Sandro Diez Amigo and Filippo Berardi

Part 4: QE Forever?

Part 4: QE Forever?

photo: 401(K) 2012 Compounding the problems of ineffectiveness and toxic…

Roubini Global Thought Leaders

Peyton’s Arm Strength Over Time

Peyton’s Arm Strength Over Time

photo: Jeffrey Beall A friend said something the other night about Peyton Manning that…

Is the Euro Irreversible? Computer Says ‘No’

Here is a logician’s or mathematician’s approach to disprove Draghi’s “the euro is irreversible”…

David Nowakowski

Italy at the Brink: From Renzi’s Referendum to Italexit?

Italy at the Brink: From Renzi’s Referendum to Italexit?

photo: Davide Oliva Europe’s Summer of Discontent In the aftermath of the…

Add Impact

“Add Impact” is the new rallying cry of the Global Impact Investing community, which concluded…

Elizabeth Boggs Davidsen

Accelerating Financial Sector Development to Boost Growth in Sub-Saharan Africa

Accelerating Financial Sector Development to Boost Growth in Sub-Saharan Africa

photo: Elaine Corso There are many reasons why deeper financial development—the increase in deposits and loans…

Anne-Marie Gulde-Wolf

What Does Paternity Leave Have to Do with a Company’s Success?

What Does Paternity Leave Have to Do with a Company’s Success?

Companies in Latin America cannot find the human talent they’re looking for. An international survey of…

Jimena Serrano and Sanola Daley