This paper traces the rise of export-led growth as a development paradigm and argues that it is exhausted owing to changed conditions in emerging market (EM) and developed economies. The global economy needs a recalibration that facilitates a new paradigm of domestic demand-led growth....

The Brexit vote took place three days before the June 26, 2016, Spain's parliamentary elections, in which anti-systemic parties performed worse compared to the previous elections (December 2015) despite the optimistic predictions of the pre-election polls and the surge in the support for...

Rethinking developing country status at the World Trade Organization (WTO) is essential for the institution's modernization and survival. The Trump administration has recognized this challenge and is seeking changes to the flexibilities provided to developing countries. Referred to as “special...

The paper delineates three debates, which will be conflated: One line of discussion relates to public goods at transnational level. Here, the referencing of debates regarding the characteristics of “a common good” will be of significance. A second strand addresses the group of countries...

We present a new index of social unrest based on counts of relevant media reports. The index consists of individual monthly time series for 130 countries, available with almost no lag, and can be easily and transparently replicated. Spikes in the index identify major events, which correspond...

Nowadays, Sustainable Development and Sustainable Service Sector seem to be an ultimate goal that every countries and governments pursue. Among many factors contributing to the sustainability of a country and the service sector, FDI attractions appeared to be a really important one. By using...

The Covid-19 outbreak has exacerbated the pre-existing vulnerabilities and risks in the widely-mismanaged economies of the Levant and North Africa, where medical systems are under-resourced and much-needed infrastructure either destroyed or lacking. A range of harsh anti-Covid-19 measures such...

Este artículo analiza las grandes transformaciones que está experimentando la economía mundial. Aborda los aspectos tecnológicos, demográficos, macroeconómicos, climáticos y de distribución de la renta, así como sus implicaciones sobre los nuevos equilibrios de poder en la economía...

This paper traces the rise of export-led growth as a development paradigm and argues that it is exhausted owing to changed conditions in emerging market (EM) and developed economies. The global economy needs a recalibration that facilitates a new paradigm of domestic demand-led growth....

The G7 or G-7 is a group consisting of the finance ministers of seven developed nations: the U.S., Japan, France, Germany, Italy, U.K. and Canada. They have been listed by the size of their national net wealth. They are the seven wealthiest developed nations on Earth by national net wealth as...