Sustainable growth is a concept that combines economic development with environmental preservation, seeking a balance between the need for growth and the protection of natural resources. In a world ...
The prevailing consensus tells us more about China watchers than it does about realities on the ground. We should be wary of ...
Twenty years ago Joshua Cooper Ramo, a consultant, first wrote about the “Beijing consensus”. The Washington consensus of financial liberalisation, floating currencies and openness to foreign capital ...
More than 20 casinos have closed their doors in Reno over the past two decades with Harrah’s being the latest casualty. This ...
Africa faces challenges in reducing extreme poverty and inequality. In 2024, 8.5% of the global population was living in extreme poverty (that is, on less than US$2.15 a day). Nearly 67% of these ...
This article appears in the April 2023 issue of The American Prospect magazine. Subscribe here. Americans have been hammered for decades with an economic message that amounts to this: When wealthy ...
What was lost in the process was harder to quantify: the density of small businesses, the overlapping networks of suppliers ...
INGOLSTADT, Germany—Christian Scharpf, the mayor of this city of 140,000, Germany’s second richest, is looking for ways to save close to €100 million. Carmaker Audi, headquartered here near the Danube ...
The long-awaited Draghi report could serve as a roadmap for the new European Commission by proposing radical changes to the European Union’s economic policy. The author, former prime minister of Italy ...
Former professor Dr. David Birch of MIT found that up to 80% of job growth in any community is generated by the businesses already located there and not by attraction efforts. Economic development in ...