Klappentext: Das im Schweizer Kanton Genf angesiedelte World Economic Forum hat es seit seiner Gründung 1971 geschafft, zu einer Schaltzentrale globaler Macht zu werden. Seit über 50 Jahren versammelt es die Spitzen aus Politik, Wirtschaft, Wissenschaft, Medien, Gewerkschaften, NGOs, Kultur...

"This edited book seeks to reflect on issues and factors that influence democracy, governance and development in Africa. This book equally provides scholars and practitioners with an empirical and practical forum to deliberate on issues, discourses, models, challenges and prospects for Africa's...

Over the past twenty years, China has become the world's largest trading nation and a significant trading partner for most countries. Despite these important links, concerns regarding China's commercial and diplomatic goals persist due to its unique state-centric economic structure. This paper...

After a lackluster outturn in 2016, economic activity is projected to pick up pace in 2017 and 2018, especially in emerging market and developing economies. However, there is a wide dispersion of possible outcomes around the projections, given uncertainty surrounding the policy stance of the...

Global growth is projected to reach 3.9 percent in 2018 and 2019, in line with the forecast of the April 2018 World Economic Outlook (WEO), but the expansion is becoming less even, and risks to the outlook are mounting. The rate of expansion appears to have peaked in some major economies and...

Global current account balances-the overall size of current account deficits and surpluses-continued to widen in 2021 to 3.5 percent of world GDP, and are expected to widen again this year. The IMF's multilateral approach suggests that global excess balances narrowed to 0.9 percent of world GDP...

While standard demand factors perform well in predicting historical trade patterns, they fail conspicuously in 2020, when pandemic-specific factors played a key role above and beyond demand. Prediction errors from a multilateral import demand model in 2020 vary systematically with the health...