by user_matias | Oct 13, 2023 | Article Eco, Comment Articles, Project Syndicate
October 12, 2023 – ODILE MACKETT JOHANNESBURG – For the past 16 years, South Africa has grappled with an acute energy crisis characterized by rolling blackouts, some lasting as long as 15 hours a day. In February, President Cyril Ramaphosa declared a...
by user_matias | Nov 24, 2023 | Article Eco, Comment Articles
October 19, 2023 – LILI YAN ING JAKARTA – On October 28-29, Japan will host the G7 Trade Ministers’ Meeting in Osaka. The primary focus of the gathering will be improving supply-chain resilience and strengthening export controls on critical...
by user_matias | Jan 22, 2024 | Article Eco, Policy Briefs, VoxEU
November 23, 2023 – ANISHA SHARMA Previously published on VoxEU on October 27, 2023. In response to alarming imbalances in its child sex ratio, in 1994 India passed an act prohibiting prenatal diagnostic methods for sex-determination and sex-selective abortions. This...
by user_matias | Jan 22, 2024 | Article Eco, Policy Briefs, VoxEU
November 23, 2023 – MARIANA MARCHIONNI, INÉS BERNIELL, MARÍA EDO Previously published on VoxEU on November 18, 2023. Claudia Goldin’s Nobel Prize-winning work sheds light on gender disparities in the labour market, particularly the transformation of...
by user_matias | Jan 22, 2024 | Article Eco, Policy Briefs, VoxEU
January 8, 2024 – ASHWINI DESHPANDE Previously published on VoxEU on December 5, 2023. India has made massive developmental and economic gains since 1991, but one facet of its developmental path marks it out from its peers – a failure to increase female participation...
by user_matias | Jan 22, 2024 | Article Eco, Policy Briefs, VoxEU
November 23, 2023 – ROULA INGLESI-LOTZ Previously published on GlobalDev in English, French and Spanish on November 15, 2023. The vast differences in energy infrastructure between the Global North and South intensify disparities in wealth and...
