All posts by Pablo Jimenez Arandia

About Pablo Jimenez Arandia

Pablo Jiménez Arandia is a Spanish freelance journalist based in Barcelona. He currently collaborates with several media outlets, writing on topics including international affairs, economics, migration and travel.

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  We’re all teleworkers now: flexible working policies in the USA, UK, Canada and Australia

  As social distancing rules are relaxed, will civil servants be drawn back into the office? Pablo Jimenez Arandia examines the emerging policies on flexible working in four big countries and

  • Posted August 31, 2021
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  The restorative power of tech: an interview with Spain’s digital agency chief, David Cierco

  For years David Cierco, head of the Spanish Red.es digital unit, made steady progress on improving the country’s public services and supporting its businesses. Then came coronavirus, and an emerging

  • Posted June 3, 2020
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  Beyond corona: the pros and cons of rent controls

  As corona hits people’s incomes, tenants in high-rent areas are among the first to suffer – and, in some countries, the last to receive support. But the virus has only

  • Posted March 23, 2020
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  COVID-19: how European governments are trying to make life easier under lockdown

  On 13 March, the World Health Organization (WHO) declared Europe the “epicentre” of the coronavirus pandemic. WHO’s president, Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, called on European countries to use aggressive measures

  • Posted March 20, 2020
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  Spain gathers anonymised phone tracking data to shape public services

  The Spanish Institute of Statistics (INE) is using location data from millions of mobile phones to gain insights into citizens’ movements. The aim is to enable government to better manage

  • Posted December 30, 2019
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  All accounted for: how four nations tackled financial exclusion

  Access to banking and financial services can help tackle poverty, boost economic growth and ease service delivery. Pablo Jiménez Arandia examines four countries’ very different approaches to tackling financial exclusion

  • Posted September 4, 2019
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  Mexico to launch smartphone payments system

  The Mexican central bank is to launch a smartphone payments system, and has instructed the country’s banks to join up by the time the system goes live at the end

  • Posted July 2, 2019
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  CJEU case could require Spain to offer 650,000 staff permanent contracts

  The Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) this month heard from lawyers representing public sector staff, in a case that could require Spain to bring hundreds of thousands

  • Posted May 29, 2019
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