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Greece: Abu Dhabi Expands Its Economic Influence in Europe
With €12.75 billion in announced agreements and a further €15 billion investment ambition, the United Arab Emirates is strengthening its economic presence in Greece. Beyond the financial commitments lies a broader strategy: turning the Eastern Mediterranean into a platform for in
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EconomicsMiddle East: When Oil No Longer Shields Economies from Recession
In the Gulf, the economic crisis can first be measured in barrels no longer produced. According to data presented by the World Bank, oil production stood at approximately 26 million barrels a day before the conflict began in February 2026. By March, it had fallen to around 16 mil
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EconomicsIMF: Beijing Puts Western Financial Vulnerabilities at the Center of Global Risk
For decades, international financial surveillance was built around an implicit distinction: advanced economies represented the stable center of the global system, while emerging and developing countries were regarded as its principal sources of vulnerability. Sovereign debt crises, external imbalances, and sudden capital movements were generally examined through their consequences for economies on the periphery.
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EconomicsWorld Bank: Critical Minerals and the Challenge of Industrialization
In Bangkok, where the annual meetings of the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank are taking place, a new financial ambition has emerged.
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EconomicsDoes the Geoeconomics of Great Powers Still Leave Room for Development?
Global trade continues to expand, but opportunities for industrialization are becoming increasingly concentrated. Between technological rivalries, economic security policies and the fragmentation of investment, emerging economies must find their place in a system where access to markets no longer guarantees access to wealth.
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EconomicsGlobal Growth Is Narrowing: AI Creates New Winners as Energy Widens the Divide
The global economy is expected to grow by 3.1% in 2026, according to the International Monetary Fund. But behind this apparent resilience lies a deeper transformation: a shrinking number of economies account for most global growth, while technological investment and energy shocks redistribute economic advantages.
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EconomicsVietnam: The Cost of Industrializing at 10% Growth
An economy can grow faster than its own infrastructure. Vietnam is beginning to provide an almost full-scale demonstration.
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EconomicsFrance: When Debt Has a Price Again
For nearly fifteen years, France was able to live with an anomaly that became so familiar it eventually seemed natural: its debt increased, its deficits persisted, governments postponed adjustment, yet markets continued to lend to it almost as if nothing had changed.
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EconomicsChina: Beijing Changes the Instruments of Stimulus
For years, China’s response to the property slowdown followed a relatively predictable playbook: cut interest rates, ease purchasing restrictions, improve access to credit, support developers and mobilize state-backed banks.
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EconomicsChina: After the Market, the Algorithm
For four decades, one of China’s great strengths was its willingness not to control everything.
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EconomicsDebt: The New Boundaries of Sustainability
Inside the finance ministry of a low-income country, debt sustainability has long ceased to be a matter of simply adding up what is owed abroad.
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EconomicsEurope: Who Really Pays Brussels?
At the European Parliament, Sarah Knafo gave the European taxpayer a name. His name is Nicolas. His work, she told Ursula von der Leyen, is worth €4,000; he receives €2,000. Then come the fuel tank, heating, electricity and, eventually, European debt. At every stage of the story, Brussels supposedly takes another share of his income.
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EconomicsEurope Is Now Protecting the Heart of Its Transformers
The European Union is no longer protecting only its steel industry. It is beginning to protect the components without which its electrification strategy cannot function.