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Sustainability

Ebola – What We Have Learned?

The Ebola crisis shows no signs of abating. It may have moved off the front pages of most Western news media, but the death toll continues to rise, and so […]

Mexico – Does More Trade Make It A Better Place To Work?

The second United States-Mexico High Level Economic Dialogue (HLED) started on 6 January 2015. President Barack Obama and President Enrique Pena Nieto are meeting to discuss, among other things, how […]

Does Reducing Income Inequality Boost Growth?

This is the question posed by a report from the OECD. Focus on Inequality and Growth from the OECD’s Directorate for Employment, Labour and Social Affairs, suggests strongly that the […]

Green Growth in Southeast Asia

‘Southeast Asia’s current growth model is unsustainable. The region has a perfect opportunity as it modernizes and builds up its infrastructure to shift to a green growth path.’ That is […]

Exporting Youth Unemployment

Many countries around the world are struggling to find employment for their young and many countries are trying different solutions. In the Eurozone this is a major problem with youth […]

Environmental Crime

Environmental crime – everything from illegal logging to the slaughter of endangered species – is globally worth up to $213 billion a year. The immense profits then help fuel other […]

Global Housing Watch

The International Monetary Fund has launched ‘Global Housing Watch’. This new programme aims to end what it calls an era of ‘benign neglect’ over the effects of housing booms. It […]

Why ‘Now is the time to prepare for the next crisis’

As we recently reported, growth in Sub-Sahara Africa is expected to reach nearly 5% in 2014, rising to possibly 6% in 2015. The figures in the African Economic Outlook look […]

Can Africa Balance Growth with Reform?

The latest African Economic Outlook contains plenty of positive news and data. But can the governments which helped fuel the booms keep pace? Economic growth is starting to look very […]

The Recession and Obesity – How One Can Feed The Other

Graham Scott explores the connections between poverty, obesity and recession. The recession which started in 2007 has seen many predictable outcomes. One is that people are finding it harder to […]