The implications of moving towards a global sharing economy are immense, but there are many reasons to embrace this simple concept – which is far more radical and urgent than it may at first seem. As a primer from STWR makes clear, the necessity of …

The global economy faces a new threat from an old enemy: oil. A spike in the price of crude foreshadowed economic slumps in each of the last four decades. So economists are worrying because the price of Brent crude, considered the benchmark for the …

US Trust put out a report titled 101 Things Every Investor Should Know About The Global Economy earlier this year. Inspired by the report, we drew on some key global themes in terms of investment, trade, output, competitiveness and asset performance to …

The report we are launching today shows the lessons you can teach others about how to thrive in a global economy. First, your target market is the world. We all know the advantages that come with the European Single Market. Having such a home is …

Achim Steiner, the head of the UN Environmental Program, tells the news agency that the climate change, pollution, land degradation, access to water and other environmental changes show that the unless the world economy — closely linked to the …

When the International Monetary Fund produced its April 2014 forecast of 3.6 per cent global output for the current year it added an important caveat. It warned that geopolitical factors, at the time mainly thought to be the turmoil in the Ukraine …

But the paper says such tax “spillovers” can create what the fund calls “a collective inefficiency” in the global economy. So the fund wants its member countries to step up their work together. “The institutional framework for addressing international …

Waterloo, Canada – June 24, 2014 – Economic espionage and cybercrime are short-sighted activities that jeopardize Internet stability and global online commerce, according to a new report issued by the Centre for International Governance Innovation (CIGI).

That is a picture of what may happen to the United States economy in a world of unchecked global warming, according to a major new report released Tuesday by a coalition of senior political and economic figures from the left, right and center …