After two years of economic contraction, Latin America and the Caribbean have begun to recover, thanks primarily to private consumption....
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Top Economics & Finance Blogs of 2018 It's 2018, and we're back with our list of the Top 101 Economics and Finance blogs. If you didn't see last... -
Is this the beginning of the end for Bitcoin? On Tuesday, 16 January, almost all major cryptocurrencies fell in a market slump that continued into Wednesday. Bitcoin, the king of... -
Risks and Opportunities for 2018 – Daniel Lacalle Daniel Lacalle, PhD, author of Escape from the Central Bank Trap, contributes a guest post to the FocusEconomics Insights blog. In this... -
The role of FDI in Vietnam’s socio-economic development Foreign direct investment (FDI) has played a crucial role in catalyzing Vietnam’s socio-economic development and its economic integration into the... -
Increasing poverty in Latin America takes a breather thanks to improving economic dynamics After having fallen for over ten years, the rates of poverty and extreme poverty increased again in a large part... -
Is Spain doing enough to address its high youth unemployment rate? The situation for young people is becoming less bleak, but significant challenges remain When twenty-one-year-old Laura Avizanda graduated from a... -
Has Latin America gone far enough in reducing barriers to international trade? Trade with Latin America is becoming easier, according to the index that measures trade facilitation in 21 Latin American countries, which... -
Commodities Outlook: Oil, Natural Gas, Coal, Lead & Tin As 2018 approaches, we take a look back at developments in the commodities markets over the past year and asked... -
21 experts tell us what the future looks like for cryptocurrencies and blockchain It’s been a little over nine years since Satoshi Nakamoto, the anonymous creator (or creators) of Bitcoin, published the paper...