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Executive Summary Ethiopia suffers from a chronic shortage of foreign exchange (forex).[1] The resulting lack of access to imports prevents firms from accessing imported inputs required for production. This creates […]

Venezuela has one of the most abundant geological endowments in the world. Oil proven reserves are among the largest globally, even if a more conservative criterion than the one used […]

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This report examines how the United Arab Emirates can leverage three key policy tools to accelerate economic diversification and transition to a knowledge-based economy: Foreign Direct Investment (FDI), Free Zones, […]

Picture yourself as finance minister of a developing economy. An eager environmentalist tries to convince you of the moral imperative of cutting your country’s greenhouse gas emissions. You soon become […]

Inequality is the result of many different phenomena. Some of them should be a source of policy concern while others should not. My main problem is the inequality that arises […]

Technological advances have increased the general tradability of services, leading international trade in services to outpace trade in goods, especially after the global financial crisis and the COVID-19 pandemic. Services […]

Wyoming is facing two distinct labor market challenges: in the short-term low workforce availability is a constraint while in the long-term job and wage growth have stagnated. Currently, Wyoming’s labor […]

Should exports be an important focus of economic growth strategies? The Washington Consensus, summarised by John Williamson some 35 years ago, would have answered in the negative. In the 1980s, […]