Eckhard Wurzel, OECD, sieht im starken Rückgang der Bevölkerung im erwerbsfähigen Alter, in den Verschiebungen in der Altersstruktur und in den sich verstärkenden regionalen Ungleichgewichten der Bevölkerungsentwicklung eine neue große Herausforderung für die Wirtschafts- und...

Frankreich leidet unter einer steigender Arbeitslosigkeit und anhaltenden Haushaltsdefiziten. Die geplanten Arbeitsmarktreformen führten zu massiven Streiks und Blockaden. Fehlt dem Land eine Kompromisskultur? Für Henrik Uterwedde, Deutsch-Französisches Institut, Ludwigsburg, besteht kein...

In the first part of the paper we look at economic growth in Africa over the past three decades. We divide the past three decades into two parts: A lost period from 1981 to 1995 and a recovery period since the second half of the 1990s. During the first period, Africa did not catch up but lost...

Fiscal positions of African countries have improved significantly during the past decade. Higher economic growth, better terms of trade, improved donor support notably through debt relief and better control of expenditure contributed to this improvement. But at the same time government revenue...

Fiscal positions of African countries have improved significantly during the past decade. Higher economic growth, better terms of trade, improved donor support notably through debt relief and better control of expenditure contributed to this improvement. But at the same time government revenue...

Economists around the world rely in addition to official statistics on business (and consumer) surveys, which are more up-to-date. However, for many emerging and developing countries there is a lack of such surveys. This gap can, at least partly, be filled by the Ifo World Economic Survey (WES)....

With rapidly rising government debt and ageing populations implying high contingent liabilities in public pension systems, the issue of longer-term fiscal developments is gaining importance. The question arises whether, and to what extent, future generations will be burdened by current policies....