Chinese Economic Outlook After Global Crisis

Explaining the Global Economic Crisis

The ICT-Enabled Global Economic Crisis

This study examines one of the unintended consequences of ICT investments in developing economies. Although ICT has helped developing countries create links with the global marketplace, which in turn has stimulated economic growth during the good times, it has also synchronized these economies such that the global economic crisis has also affect them. This paper specifically studies the questio...

Preferences for redistribution after the economic crisis

This paper analyses the effects of the recent Economic Crisis on individual preferences for redistribution in 23 European countries. After implementing a decomposition of the variation in these preferences, it is showed that the crisis was highly significant in increasing support for redistribution. It is found that more unemployment and, in particular, youth unemployment has considerably raise...

The economic outlook.

NOTES Unless otherwise indicated, all years referred to in this report are calendar years. Unemployment rates throughout the report are calculated on the basis of the civilian labor force. Details in the text and tables of this report may not add to totals because of rounding.

Russia after the Global Financial Crisis

Two prominent American specialists on the Russian economy present a fundamental analysis of basic economic factors explaining how the global financial crisis has played out in Russia and its implications for the country’s future. More specifically, the authors examine the consequences of Russia’s dependence on and addiction to resource (oil and gas) rents and of the management system put in pla...