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The EU’s long-term fiscal challenges
EU finance ministers met at the April 2023 informal ECOFIN meeting to discuss the reform of the fiscal governance framework as proposed by the Europe…
2 years, 9 months ago
Europe's takeaway from recent banking turmoil
The collapses in rapid succession of Credit Suisse in Switzerland along with the Silicon Valley Bank (SVB) and Signature Bank in the United States ha…
2 years, 10 months ago
The economic value of decentralised finance
Cryptocurrencies have become more popular and established in recent years. Simultaneously, crypto financial services, like lending, have also emerged…
2 years, 10 months ago
China’s influence in African media narratives and digital space
Since the end of the Chinese civil war in 1947, Africa has been crucial to China’s foreign policy. First, China supported several African liberation …
2 years, 10 months ago
Why are remote jobs only happening in the cities?
Since the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic, a record number of people have begun to work from home. However, the seeming flexibility of remote posit…
2 years, 10 months ago
Quantitative tightening in the euro area
In March 2023, the European Central Bank (ECB) launched its quantitative tightening (QT) policy, to unwind its portfolio of assets that resulted from…
2 years, 10 months ago
Assessing Europe’s strategy on critical raw materials
The Critical Raw Materials Act, proposed by the European Commission on the 16 March 2023, sets clear benchmarks for domestic capacities along the str…
2 years, 11 months ago
The Belt and Road Initiative 2.0 is all about security
When the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) was first announced in 2013, its official objective was to improve connectivity. However, many things have ha…
2 years, 11 months ago
The collapse of Silicon Valley Bank
What is happening with the Silicon Valley Bank? In this episode of The Sound of Economics, Giuseppe Porcaro invites Rebecca Christie and Nicolas Vér…
2 years, 11 months ago
Why do patriarchal systems survive?
On International Women’s Day 2023, Giuseppe Porcaro is joined by Nancy Folbre, one of the pioneering economists in the area of feminist economics.
To…
2 years, 11 months ago