The last mile
Europe is pouring money into the wrong end of its power grid. Distribution grids are what stand between households and cheaper energy bills. In March, Energinet, the operator of the…
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Direct, indirectly
The trouble with treating FDI inflows as a national report card is that it’s often overly difficult to know what is, and what is not, FDI. In September 2024 the…
Eastern Europe’s next export is operating intelligence
The Last Word: Those working on Central and Eastern Europe’s narrative should stop selling what they do, and start selling what they see. Ask a room why the GBS sector…
Javier Milei
Choose your own Argentina
Depending on which data you look at, you get a different Argentina. The main political question for the next year is whether the two Argentinas will begin to converge or…
Donald Trump
Donald Trump and his doppelgänger
Did Trump make a historic blunder when he chose to join Israel in what began as an attempt to overthrow the Iranian dictatorship? Leer más
Beyond the bottom line
Replacing GDP targets with wellbeing sounds appealing. Those (very) few countries that have tried it are retreating from the idea, however. Zack Polanski delivered his first major economic speech as…
Analysis
Tinubu @ 3: How REA’s mini-grid solutions are driving Nigeria’s $1tn economy target
For decades, achieving economic independence in Nigeria has been limited by a fundamental deficit: access to reliable electricity. In rural and peri-urban communities, often referred to as the “last mile,”…
Analysis
Bank on it
The EBRD’s annual gathering in Riga next month shows that there is a great deal of life left in what critics often dismiss as talking shops. Tomas Kairys, the European…
Opinion
Chamberlain or Churchill, Mr President?
The clear question is Chamberlain or Churchill, Mr. President? Leer más
Analysis
Capital concentration
Across the Baltics and the Balkans, shrinking countries are betting everything on one major city. Entire regions risk being left in limbo. Adrian Nikolov of the Institute for Market Economics,…
Analysis
Analysis: Why the cedi is depreciating
The Ghana cedi has been on a sustained depreciation path since late March 2026 following the escalation of the US–Israel–Iran conflict in the Middle East. For many Ghanaians, especially after…
Analysis
Sovereign by subscription
Malta has handed every citizen a free ChatGPT Plus account. Other countries will be more than interested in the results of the experiment. Ian Borg, Malta’s deputy prime minister, flew…