We Need to be More Skeptical about Microcredits
Rising evidence points towards an inefficiency in how we tackle global poverty Development economics is slowly gaining an amount of...
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Increasing minimum wages: A blessing or a curse?
Debates regarding the minimum wages across nations are far from over. Ten years after the financial crisis of 2008-2009, the worldwide...
Money Falling From the Sky: A Utopia?
Since 2014 the European Central Bank has launched a series of unconventional monetary policies aimed at stimulating its stagnant economy...
The Great Crisis: Behind the Scenes
The economic crisis exploded in 2008 had disastrous effects on the world’s economy, forcing governments to undertake massive...
Offshore Financial Centers: A Necessary Evil?
Benjamin Franklin once noted that ‘nothing in this world is certain except death and taxes’. For rich and well-advised individuals and...
Will Shadow Banking remain in the shadows?
As banks reduce their lending in response to new banking regulations, ‘shadow banks’ are taking on a growing share of their business....
Japan Focus: A Snapshot of the Japanese Economy
About a month ago, on January 29th 2016, the Bank of Japan decided to cut its benchmark interest rate below zero to -0.1%. This doesn’t...
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