Diagnosis for Europe
Last week heavy-weight EU think-tank, Friends of Europe, has gathered a wide spectrum of acknowledged EU speakers, thinkers and officials, with an aim of diagnosing a state of Europe, which seems is still in trouble, but […]
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Golden age of pensions and of risks
OECD in its Pensions Outlook for 2012 made a nice summary by saying that today pensioners are living a golden age – seniors are living longer and their pensions are […]
Baltic States go nuclear
We know from the theory that to stay competitive the economies must have adequately skilled and cost-effective labor among the factors of production. However, with internal consolidation and falling labour […]
Winners of crisis will take it all
The reforms matter to the extent they are delivered, they have their price and their prize. The OECD recently has published a renewed structural reform inventory for its members to […]
Sins of world’s most competitive economies
In its latest report on global competitiveness for 2012–2013 the World Economic Forum has covered a record number of 144 economies, which were ranked in 12 pillars of competitiveness encompassing […]
Almost Almighty Mario
This Thursday European Central Bank announced a new successor to its Securities Market Programme (SMP), which will be called Outright Monetary Transaction (OMT), an unlimited and sterilised bond purchases programme. […]
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