Economy & Finance

Covid-19 has very been expensive in terms of budgets as well as lives. Rich countries have rightly ramped up their budgetary spending – and budget deficits – to keep their populations afloat and to spur a post-pandemic recovery. They have…

The recent COP26, which ended on November 13th in Glasgow, has generated conflicting judgments on its outcomes, with some analysts celebrating the reached achievements and others claiming its failure. It is likely reasonable to affirm that…

The target established first in the 2015 Paris Agreement, and then confirmed in the recent Glasgow Climate Pact, aims to limit the increase of the mean global temperature to 1.5°C with respect to the pre-industrial levels. Scientists…

A version of this article was published as a Hudson Institute policy memo, based on an excerpt from Thomas Duesterberg’s forthcoming report, Economic Cracks in the Great Wall of China: Is China’s Current Economic Model Sustainable?…

 Il summit del G20 che si è tenuto a Roma a fine ottobre ha adottato uno slogan che, a ben guardare, racchiude un problema di fondo per le scelte politiche sulla “trasformazione verde”: People, Planet, Prosperity. I tre termini si…