JALIHA: The golden wheat ears of Kamel Hamed sway languidly in the wind. But faced with this rural landscape in central Iraq, the farmer does not hide his fear: between drought and water shortages, his harvest has been cut in half. “The drought is unbelievable at the moment. Even in the wells the water cannot … Read more
Since the 2008 financial crisis, the international community has been mobilizing, especially during the G20 summits, to find solutions. Ludovic Marin / AFP global economy Atlantico Oren Cass, senior fellow at the Manhattan Institute for Policy Research, management consultant at Bain & Company, and editor of the Harvard Law Review, envisions a trip to the … Read more
After Ibrahim Raisi took office as president of the Iranian regime last year, he pledged to build one million houses in Iran every year to meet demand. He had previously said during a visit to Qazvin that “it is necessary to build a million homes a year and that is not just a slogan”.After nine … Read more
Public investors such as sovereign wealth funds, pension funds and central banks are playing an increasingly important role in the financial markets. The companies they invest in generate large amounts of CO2 emissions and play an important role in the transition to a greener economy. We compare two opposing perspectives on how public investments deal … Read more
The Chinese economy is a wonderful testimony to the speed at which the world can change today. By contrast, the big winner of the Covid crisis in 2020, Beijing, appears to have experienced unparalleled instability in 2022 since Xi Jinping came to power. At the root of this sudden reversal of the situation are four … Read more
According to a survey conducted by Viavoice for the Assises du journalisme de Tours, published on Saturday; a majority of French (57%) rate journalists’ information during the presidential campaign as “good”. According to this survey, carried out in collaboration with France Télévisions, France Médias Monde, Le Journal du Dimanche and Radio France, only 11% of … Read more
China and its economy operate very differently from liberal systems where stimulus packages are exceptional. It is therefore complicated to analyze it through the prism of Western terminologies, warns Michael Pettis, professor of finance at Peking University, for whom the Chinese economy is working thanks to a permanent stimulus plan. Every year in March, the … Read more
The IMD, the international management school based in Lausanne, published its competitiveness ranking for 2021 on Thursday. Switzerland takes first place for the first time since its publication, which began in 1989. The 2021 edition takes place in the context of the Covid-19 pandemic that has slowed the prosperity of the global economy by a … Read more
Pandemic that never ends, high inflation that persists, economic slowdown worsening around the world, risk of a particularly warm social recovery in France, German parliamentary elections in September that could end the “money printing” of the ECB and the Interest rates could push up on Eurozone government bonds sharply… It’s becoming clear that the coming … Read more
The use of an econometric model makes it possible to evaluate the impact of the programs of Marine Le Pen and Emmanuel Macron on the French economy. Return match between Emmanuel Macron and Marine Le Pen, five years after 2017. At the end of the Covid crisis and as Europe is rocked by the war … Read more