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Food waste is an issue today even in parts of the world where, as recently as a few decades ago, it was unheard of. Notwithstanding, compared with the US and Europe in per capita terms, the percentages in South East [...]

There is an important distinction between disruptive innovation and adaptive innovation. The former is making existing things obsolete while the latter improves things that already exist. This session of Ask our Experts features Nir Tsuk.  KEY TAKE-AWAYS There is [...]

China’s growth will have taken a hit but looks like it will be less negatively impacted than the rest of the world. This can be explained both by China’s rapid and radical response to control the pandemic and other structural [...]

The market bounce remains a puzzle. It can be explained in part by investors being reassured by the pace and spread of the policy response that succeeded in “flattening the trough”. Markets are still dubbing this as a short-lived liquidity [...]

In his own words, the objective of Kishore Mahbubani’s newly published book Has China Won? is not, as some critics have stated, to uphold an anti-American discourse, but to approach the ongoing rivalry between China and the US from a [...]

This session of Ask Our Experts featured the Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs, Manuel Muniz. KEY TAKE-AWAYS There is no one reason that explains Spain’s particular experience of the Covid-19 epidemic. A variety of factors probably contributed: over 700,000 multi-generational [...]

Our world has changed, and we will have to learn to live by new rules. The Covid-19 pandemic is not only symptomatic of this new quantum world but has also thrown this evolution into perspective and will probably accelerate it. [...]

Helicopter Money. With interest rates hovering around zero, Central Banks’ power to stimulate the economy by classic monetary tools is almost nil. General agreement that the stimulus will come from an increase in fiscal deficits: public expenditure will go up [...]

Confinement exacerbates our existing or underlying anxieties. In our current situation, these are mostly related to uncertainty, ill-preparedness, and the impossibility of planning ahead. We are in fact constantly reacting to unexpected circumstances and crises and on the whole humans [...]