Emerging economies

The Ukrainian war economy

This paper analyses Ukraine’s war economy management and performance, according to information available in June 2023.

Internationale Staatsverschuldung, Schuldenrestrukturierungen und mögliche Handlungsoptionen für das BMZ

Brazil is not a real middle power if it just takes China's side

Lula cannot show strategic autonomy by parroting Xi Jinping

Thirty years of economic transition in the former Soviet Union: Microeconomic and institutional dimensions

The transition experience in the former Soviet Union region has demonstrated a correlation between political and economic reforms.

Will Lula find his El Dorado in China?

The Brazilian president is seeking Beijing’s support for his quest for middle power prowess

China’s influence in African media narratives and digital space

What role does China play in the African media landscape?

What China’s reopening will mean for the global economy

A timely discussion about the reopening of China after the zero-Covid policy and its implications on the global economy

Strengthening the security of supply of products containing Critical Raw Materials

Five lessons from the Recovery and Resilience Facility for future crisis-response instruments

Presented as a new departure in EU policy-making, the EU’s Recovery and Resilience Facility (RRF) is now in its second year of implementation.

NextGenerationEU: an underused facility?

The RRF has great potential to become an instrument for ‘insuring’ EU countries against common shocks.

Success at COP27 will be defined by progress on climate finance and ‘loss and damage’

COP27 should create the basis of a global loss-and-damage fund to help vulnerable countries already suffering from climate disasters.

A world recovery fund to overcome developing countries’ post-covid debt woes?

Proposal to set up a World Recovery Fund (WRF), aimed at addressing some of the key problems with the design of the DSSI and more generally the existi

The socio-economic consequences of COVID-19 in the Middle East and North Africa

Confronted with COVID-19, high-income Gulf countries have done better than most of their middle- and low-income neighbours; Jordan and Morocco are als