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GIS Dossier: Return of the Daddy State

Greeks queue for unemployment benefits in 2011

13.09.2017

The aftermath of the 9/11 terrorist attacks and the 2008 financial crisis have led to calls for a dramatic increase in the powers of government. Even the ubiquity of internet-based technologies and the populist backlash against political establishments have had the paradoxical effect of promoting centralization. Yet in both politics and economics, there is plenty of evidence that state paternalism is the wrong answer.

GIS Feature

POLITICS

India and Africa: two perspectives across the Indian Ocean

New Delhi, Oct. 29 2015: Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi (C) after addressing the India Africa Forum Summit (source: dpa)

02.03.2016

This report presents, back-to-back, two scenarios for the emerging strategic relationship between India and Africa outlined by GIS contributors, Pramit Pal Chaudhuri of India and Teresa Nogueira Pinto, our Africa expert. View from India Africa summits are ...

Pramit Pal Chaudhuri

ECONOMY

Chinese consumer market’s rising tide cannot be turned back

In 2015, China’s Singles Day (November 11) saw the national e-commerce giant Alibaba rake in a record $14.3 billion in sales, up 60 percent from 2014; meanwhile, the total sales on Cyber Monday (the first Monday after Thanksgiving) in the U.S. was $3.1 billion (source: dpa)

24.02.2016

Can China develop a coherent, vibrant internal market and break its dependency on large state-owned industries? The country has made substantial progress over the last 20 years, says GIS Guest Expert Professor James Woudhuysen, and despite current concerns about the stability of its economy, there are good reasons to believe it will continue to do so. ...

James Woudhuysen

ECONOMY

Argentina weighs up energy price adjustment

Buenos Aires, Dec. 26, 2013: residents of the Villa Crespo neighborhood demand the resumption of power services after a 15-day blackout (source: dpa)

02.02.2016

Argentine President Mauricio Macri must cope with an energy sector in dire straits. Policy over the past decade has been inconsistent and often counterproductive. Subsidies weigh heavily on public finances. However, reforming the hydrocarbon extraction and refining industries should prove far easier politically than solving the country’s challenges in electricity p...

Dr. Noel Maurer

ENERGY

Debunking the myth of China’s coming productivity bust

Shanghai, Nov. 26, 2015: Yu Chengdong, Chairman and CEO of Huawei Consumer Business Group, unveils a new smartphone. According to Gartner Inc., Huawei sold the third largest number of smartphones in the world (27.2 million) in Q3 of 2015, after Samsung (83.5 million) and Apple (46 million) (source: dpa)

07.12.2015

We have heard the glib predictions of doom. China is growing increasingly less competitive. Its wages are rising and innovation faltering, landing it squarely in the ‘middle income trap’ that afflicts emerging economies with rising costs as they try to move up the value chain. Though it has poured money into R&amp;D and modern equipment, productivity has stalle...

James Woudhuysen

ECONOMY

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