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CAPITALISMS/INCOME INEQUALITY – Capitalist systems and income inequality (Marco Ranaldi, Branko Milanovic, VOXEU)

Similar levels of income inequality may be characterised by completely different distributions of capital and labour. People who belonged to the highest income decile...

AFRICA – The political economy of Africa’s interior-to-coast roads (Roberto Bonfatti, Steven Poelhekke , VOXEU)

One striking fact about Africa is that paved roads have evolved mostly in an interior-to-coast direction, and not only during colonial periods. Figures 1...

PYRAMIDAL BUSINESS GROUPS – Using regulation to dismantle pyramidal business groups: Evidence from the US, Japan, Korea and Israel (Assaf Hamdani, Konstantin Kosenko, Yishay...

Large business entities are often perceived as valuable players in the economy and the product of bold entrepreneurship and disruptive innovation. Nevertheless, they are...

COVID19/GREAT RECESSION – The role of managerial quality during the Great Recession (Gilbert Cette, Jimmy Lopez, Jacques Mairesse, Giuseppe Nicoletti, VOXEU)

The COVID-19 crisis has highlighted the importance of swift reorganisation of tasks and logistics in cushioning economic shocks. For instance, the ability to rapidly...

USA – Tribes Mount Organized Responses to COVID-19, in Contrast to State and Federal Governments (Lisa Hardy, Gwendolyn Saul and Kerry F. Thompson, The...

As the months roll by, the pandemic continues to hit Indigenous nations hard. But this phenomenon is not new. Epidemics have been part of...

EUROPE/COVID19 – Europe needs to prepare better for coming out of new strict containment measures (OECD)

With the coronavirus (COVID-19) once again spreading rapidly, and the re-introduction of containment measures to flatten the curve of the epidemic, it is crucial...

ASIA PACIFIC/HEALTH/COVID19 – Health at a Glance: Asia/Pacific 2020. Measuring Progress Towards Universal Health Coverage (OECD)

This sixth edition of Health at a Glance Asia/Pacific presents a set of key indicators of health status, the determinants of health, health care...

EUROPE – Memo to the European Commission on concrete initiatives for a more outward-looking, geopolitical Europe (Jean Pisani-Ferry, PIIE)

To: The President of the European Commission Background: In the Political Guidelines you presented to the European Parliament immediately after your designation in July 2019, you set...

BOLIVIA – Exile or Return (Al Jazeera)

What will the future hold for Bolivia and its former president, Evo Morales? In late 2019, mass protests triggered by a fiercely disputed election forced...

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