China Creating Debt Traps

Is China Creating Debt Traps in the Developing World?

This discussion paper looks into China’s financial relations with developing countries in recent years, amid claims that Beijing...
VaccineFightWeb

How the Fight over Covid-19 Vaccines will Shape Global Inequality

This discussion paper argues that unless there is a strong and well-coordinated international cooperation effort, the Covid-19 vaccination...
Trumpismweb

The Neo-Liberal Roots of ‘Trumpism’: American Economic Policy in the Post-Trump Era

Given the long-term trends of the American economy, the Trump presidency is not the cause but a symptom...
FinancingPandemicWeb

Financing the Pandemic: The Political Economy of Rising Government Debt

This discussion paper advances the idea that the Covid-19 pandemic has been a seismic event for government economic...
EnergyWeb

The Geopolitics of the Renewable Energy Transition: Winners and Losers

This paper argues that the ongoing transition towards renewable energy has significant implications beyond environmental impacts. The transition...
EmergingEconoCovidWeb

Emerging Economies and the Covid-19 Crisis: Challenges and Opportunities

This paper first introduces a short discussion of general trends affecting emerging economies, which have emerged during the...
Backtothefuture

Back to the Future: A New Keynesian Age

This paper argues that the Covid-19 crisis will accelerate the major policy transformation already underway in developed economies...
TurkeyCovidEconomyweb

Can Turkey Emerge from Covid-19 as a ‘Developmental State’?

This paper concludes that the deep transformations caused by the Covid-19 crisis provide developing countries like Turkey with...
savingEconomyweb

Saving the Economy from Covid-19: A Preliminary Assessment of Government Rescue Plans

This paper critically discusses the rescue packages introduced by governments to counteract the economic consequences of the Covid-19...
reordering

Reordering Capitalism: A New Economic World Order post-Covid-19

This paper argues that the pandemic may lead to a major paradigm shift in economic thinking. In times...