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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....
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...
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...
The financial market volatility that has already marked the early stages of the COVID-19 economic recovery underscores how much the...
Software developers celebrated in early April when the US Supreme Court shot down a high-profile copyright case after a decade...
As John Templeton once said, the four most dangerous words in investing are “this time it’s different.” This notion seems...
The coronavirus pandemic has realigned home and work life across the world. Lockdowns have forced many employers and their workers...
Economic growth and urbanisation have always gone hand in hand. It was true in Ancient China and in the Roman...
Australia’s moniker as the lucky country, as mentioned in a previous blog post, has held through the pandemic and is...