The construction sector did not escape the coronavirus-induced economic downdraft unscathed. Activity at the global scale fell 1.4% in 2020,...
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The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) has played a key role in leading India’s pandemic policy response. While elevated inflation...
Inflation has become the all-consuming focus of investors’ attention in recent weeks. On the surface the story is simple—transitory factors...
Research Briefing
The US economy is unlikely to experience an inflation regime shift. But after a decade of glacial price rises in...
In his recent blog post, Ahmed Esam discusses the challenges the GCC region faces as it aims to transition away...
Research Briefing
The Canada Recovery Tracker (CRT) rose 1.4ppts to 87.4 in the week ended May 7 and is once again heading...
Research Briefing
Emerging Markets’ reputations for delivering on fiscal commitments has never been so important as it is now, given the need...
The financial market volatility that has already marked the early stages of the COVID-19 economic recovery underscores how much the...
As John Templeton once said, the four most dangerous words in investing are “this time it’s different.” This notion seems...
Over the past thirty years Richard Nixon’s famous comment “we are all Keynesians now” could hardly have rung more hollow....
Sarah Hunter, Chief Australian Economist at BIS Oxford Economics joins Shaun Roache from S&P Ratings on this Australian Securitisation Forum...
This week the Banco Central do Brasil (BCB) lowered the Selic rate to 2.00%. Although our baseline scenario is for...
Modern economic history since the 1970s is littered with episodes of oil shocks, with surging crude prices triggering global recessions....