Trade is indispensable to fostering greater levels of global economic development. As the OECD has written, “No country has lifted itself out of poverty without international trade.” This category consolidates GTIPA-member reports assessing the intersection of trade and economic development.
Welcome to the new face of anti-consumerism growing in Europe: degrowth.
The latest case in this panic and neo-Luddite reaction: a new report from MIT’s “Work of the Future” project. The report, titled “Taxes, Automation, and the Future of Work,” is wrong in its analysis of the relationship between automation and employment; in its analysis of the relative taxes on labor and machinery; and most importantly, in its recommendation to increase the effective tax rate on machinery and equipment investments. Doing that would significantly lower wage growth and reduced U.S. international competitiveness.
For this third edition of the series, we decided to turn everything you’ve come to expect from Disrupting Democracy on its head. Rather than looking at the impact of technology on democracy, this volume will use technology to help us better explain democracy in the 21st century. Through the use of carefully constructed algorithms by our partners at the Institute for Competitiveness, we have collected data points that are the driving forces behind the volatility in democracy today. We’ve taken more than 10,000 data points and converted them into a compendium of visualizations that provides a degree of depth that will take you well beyond any written analysis.
For this third edition of the series, we decided to turn everything you’ve come to expect from Disrupting Democracy on its head. Rather than looking at the impact of technology on democracy, this volume will use technology to help us better explain democracy in the 21st century. Through the use of carefully constructed algorithms by our partners at the Institute for Competitiveness, we have collected data points that are the driving forces behind the volatility in democracy today. We’ve taken more than 10,000 data points and converted them into a compendium of visualizations that provides a degree of depth that will take you well beyond any written analysis.
In 2000, South Africa was ranked at 58th in the Fraser Institute's Economic Freedom of the World (EFW) report. In the 2020 edition, South Africa's ranking was 90th, out of 162 countries and territories. The steady decline of the country's economic freedom is made real in ever-rising unemployment, lower living standards, rising poverty and hunger, and a general sense of hopelessness. The higher a country is ranked, the better generally its people’s lives are. When a country's ranking declines, the opposite is true. On this Heritage Day, heading out of the COVID-19 lockdown, South Africans should strongly consider the country’s direction, and the kind of heritage we want to leave for future generations
This paper looks at the energy industry of Malaysia which has, paradoxically, recorded both the increase of coal and renewable energy in its matrix. It is in this context that the government will now need to consider the future of energy policy as it develops the 12th Malaysia Plan. Investments in the energy sector, such as power plants, are designed to have a useful life of decades, therefore decisions taken today will impact future generations for years to come.
The book "Europe 2030" offers an outlook for the next few years. The time span of ten years is manageable and the statements are therefore verifiable. Most of the twelve authors paint a rather gloomy picture of Europe's future. Since the book was published before the corona crisis, the crisis is not taken into account.
Indeed, the South African economy is on a downward spiral and that is unbelievably bad, not just for our growth prospects, but the rights and lives of women in particular. In many ways, COVID-19 lockdown restrictions simply exacerbated the effects of our country's poor economic choices and lack of economic growth.
The concept of an inheritance tax must be the mother of all morally repugnant taxes.
Winston Churchill is alleged to have once quipped that one should “never let a good crisis go to waste.” When the European Commission proceeded to cobble together its historic 750 billion-euro Covid-19 rescue fund, it offered a perfect illustration of how that political wisdom could be transformed into reality.