Analysis

SummaryThe latest US economic data confirms the US remains locked in a prolonged period of slow growth with major consequences for geopolitics and destabilising consequences ...

The following article analyses in detail the relation between economic growth and human well-being. Its focus is a comparison of China with developing and advanced ...

Prem Shankar Jha is a leading Indian journalist, columnist and former editor of the Hindustan Times, New Delhi. He has published an outstanding analysis of ...

In his speech on Asia's "Community of Common Destiny" at 2015'a Boao Forum, Chinese President Xi Jinping spelled out China's conception of "win-win" relations in Asia ...

​IntroductionThe media outside China periodically carries predictions of a China ‘hard landing’. For example George Soros grabbed headlines earlier this year by declaring of China: ...

It is frequently underestimated just how dependent world economic growth is on only a few countries. Strikingly, on the IMF’s latest projections, the majority of ...

The Hamburg G20 summit was a further stage in a process that has been developing strongly during the  2017: a recognition that a new stage ...

​The damaging blind alley of US protectionismThe following article deals with the costs to the US economy of protectionism. The specific case it deals with ...

​Until recently, the big myth about China's companies was their lack of innovation. That view is now being reassessed in a series of Western studies ...

Economics textbooks, particularly when discussing Keynes, frequently contain an elementary economic confusion - it should be made explicit this is a confusion in the textbooks ...