The United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) has raised concerns that many of the world’s Least Developed Countries ...

High energy costs, weak global demand, a disruptive shift towards net-zero economies and growing competition from China are raising existential questions for Germany's economic model. CEOs and ...

Deindustrialization has become a global challenge related to governance, and linked to social unrest and economic chaos in parts of the world. Over the past two to three decades, almost all developed ...

Economist Ann Pettifor is one of the world’s most authoritative and consequential voices on the themes of global finance, debt sovereignty, and sustainable economics. She is widely credited for having ...

Solutions require action, but are we willing? Elected representatives have failed to prevent issues and often facilitated their existence and growth through short term election focus rather than long ...

When the chemical factories shuttered, leaving the Love Canal disaster and environmental degradation behind, the iconic city of Niagara Falls tried to find ways to recover. To stem massive population ...

I was sitting under a sheltering fir on a bench I made years ago of recycled wood at the edge of a 70-acre wildflower-filled meadow. Thunderheads formed over the 6500′ peaks of Washington’s ancient ...

It is an old-standing diagnosis: ever since the late 1970s, the industrial production of goods in affluent countries has been regarded as a discontinued model. According to strong versions of the ...

The Economic Issues series aims to make available to a broad readership of nonspecialists some of the economic research being produced in the International Monetary Fund on topical issues. The raw ...

The Economic Issues series aims to make available to a broad readership of nonspecialists some of the economic research being produced in the International Monetary Fund on topical issues. The raw ...