Economy & Finance

What does “temporary” mean exactly? It may seem like a matter for philosophers and linguists, but it’s not. In fact, the question is at the very core of the dilemma faced by economists, central bankers and policy makers across Europe, who…

The COP26 gathering of last November left in the background the economic implications of dramatically transforming the entire production and consumption systems, on which the current life of mankind relies. The 26th annual UN Climate Change…

The European Commission has recently chosen to defer the implementation of the Sustainable Finance Disclosure Regulation (SFDR) to January 1, 2023 and to change the EU taxonomy from a list of “sustainable activities” to a list of…

La discussione sulla cosiddetta “tassonomia europea” delle fonti rinnovabili sta assumendo i toni di uno scontro tra guelfi e ghibellini: è un modo di affrontare i problemi ambientali che purtroppo non aiuta i governi a compiere…

Kazakhstan’s commodities-dependent economy has been suffering since 2014 when oil and mineral prices crashed. In just three years, gross domestic product dropped by 42%, from $235.6 billion in 2014 to $137.3 billion in 2016. A modest…