Trade wars also have winners: Vietnam and Mexico
The countries have emerged as the biggest beneficiaries of tariff increases between the United States and China. Their exports have increased, despite a hostile climate
Haiti, an economy condemned by a 19th-century debt
60% of the Caribbean country’s population now lives in poverty, and experts are calling for strengthening the local currency and raising tariffs to favor local agriculture. Meanwhile, the island nation is mired in yet another grave institutional crisis
Abhijit Banerjee, Nobel Prize in Economics: ‘There are important things that cannot be solved just with a money transfer ’
An expert on poverty issues, the Indian-born U.S. economist discusses the results of an experiment in Kenya that allocated money to people and measured their degree of entrepreneurship
This is how Finland is looking for its next Nokia
Sari Multala — the minister of Science and Culture for the Nordic country — wants to boost public and private investment in R&D to 4% of GDP. She says that this will allow small and medium-sized enterprises to ‘have the success’ that the mobile manufacturer Nokia once enjoyed
US offers life support to Venezuela’s economy
Washington’s decision to lift sanctions on Caribbean country’s oil sector has improved growth forecasts
Sub-Saharan Africa, the renewable paradise where not everyone has access to electricity
The continent, which is holding its climate summit on Monday, has more countries with a majority of ‘green’ electricity than any other region, but a significant proportion of its inhabitants lacked electricity in 2021
Albania, a new travel hotspot, opens up to the world
The Balkan state is enjoying a boom in tourism and exports, but faces challenges such as poverty, organized crime and the sharp appreciation of the lek
New Zealand, the trading partner of almost every country in the world
The island country has just closed a new deal with the European Union, while managing to maintain a diplomatic balance with China, its largest foreign market
Inequality: The endemic evil of Paraguay
Incoming president Santiago Peña, of the Colorado Party, is promising to create half-a-million jobs in a country that has very low tax rates and a high concentration of power in the hands of large landowners