Automation and robotization are rapidly transforming industries across the world: The global stock of robots has more than doubled since...
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For most product-based businesses, the supply chain problems that have defined the Covid-19 era are not going away quickly. Executives...
Although the structural drags on inflation in commodity prices will remain post-COVID, short-term cyclical factors have risen sharply in recent...
The construction sector did not escape the coronavirus-induced economic downdraft unscathed. Activity at the global scale fell 1.4% in 2020,...
Travel and tourism, like many other industries, had become highly globalised in the years leading up to the COVID-19 pandemic....
In the race to become the leader in Artificial Intelligence (AI), China and the United States are way ahead of...
Commodity price surges were associated with spikes in inflation in the 1970s, but have not been so in recent decades....
Inflation has become the all-consuming focus of investors’ attention in recent weeks. On the surface the story is simple—transitory factors...
It has been a tough few years for truth, trust, and authenticity online. Between a global pandemic and broader social,...
There has been much discussion around the world about how the Covid pandemic is disproportionately impacting women in the labour...
In his recent blog post, Ahmed Esam discusses the challenges the GCC region faces as it aims to transition away...
The economic fallout from the pandemic has thrown economists a number of curve balls. The usual rules about recessions, with...
The sustainability of hydrocarbon revenues among Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) economies has been a major concern for decades, prompting a...
The imposition of lockdown regulations to prevent the spread of Covid-19 forced millions of people across the globe to work...
With the American Rescue Plan, US President Biden is implementing a stimulus program of historic proportions. Coming on top of...
In his recent blog post, James Nixon argued that the exit from the current round of pandemic-driven QE may be...
In a recent blog post, Will over-tourism be a problem again?, Eva McGrath-Olivan noted that while the increasing scale of...
There has been extensive debate about the future of work after the coronavirus pandemic. At the heart of this is...
The health crisis has wreaked havoc on global supply chains. Lockdowns, restrictions on movement and quarantine regulations have disrupted conventional...
In a recent blog post we highlighted the role that public infrastructure investment can play in leading and sustaining economic...
