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Resilience is a relevant concept for all of us—humans, leaders, companies, cities and institutions. While its application is varied, the goal is the same: to create a stable, successful future that ...

Twenty years ago Joshua Cooper Ramo, a consultant, first wrote about the “Beijing consensus”. The Washington consensus of financial liberalisation, floating currencies and openness to foreign capital ...

Africa faces challenges in reducing extreme poverty and inequality. In 2024, 8.5% of the global population was living in extreme poverty (that is, on less than US$2.15 a day). Nearly 67% of these ...

China will likely pursue a new economic model to drive a smooth transition in growth engines, potentially providing an ...

The long-awaited Draghi report could serve as a roadmap for the new European Commission by proposing radical changes to the European Union’s economic policy. The author, former prime minister of Italy ...

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THE BIG debate about the Chinese economy has long pitted those who see it as a bubble waiting to burst against those who judge it a sustainable success. A new debate is now emerging, which is ...

INGOLSTADT, Germany—Christian Scharpf, the mayor of this city of 140,000, Germany’s second richest, is looking for ways to save close to €100 million. Carmaker Audi, headquartered here near the Danube ...

Whether Chinese economic development model has reached limits ...