NEWS

Latest updates

• Global Outlook: economic convergence in Latin America and Europe

  • In EIU’s latest global outlook video, Agathe Demarais, Abhijit Surya and Mario Bikarski discuss the outlook for economic convergence in Latin America and Europe.
• Consumer goods in 2022: knots in the supply chain

  • EIU has taken a look at the growth prospects, top risks and key trends facing the consumer goods and retail sector next year.
• Finance in 2022: gusty tailwinds

  • As part of our industry outlook for 2022, EIU has taken a look at the growth prospects, top risks and key trends facing the financial service sector next year.
• Technology and telecoms in 2022: geopolitical tensions

  • As part of our industry outlook for 2022, EIU has taken a look at the growth prospects, top risks and key trends facing the telecoms and technology sector next year.
• Tel Aviv becomes world’s most expensive city

  • The inflation rate of the prices tracked in EIU’s Worldwide Cost of Living (WCOL) across cities is the fastest recorded over the past five years, at 3.5%.
• Tourism in 2022: a shaky recovery

  • As part of our industry outlook for 2022, EIU has taken a look at the growth prospects, top risks and key trends facing the tourism sector next year.
• Healthcare in 2022: the aftermath of coronavirus

  • As part of our industry outlook for 2022, EIU has taken a look at the growth prospects, top risks and key trends facing the healthcare sector next year.
• South Africa’s job losses threaten growth and fiscal account

  • South Africa’s unemployment rate climbed to a new record of 34.9% in the third quarter of 2021, from 34.4% in the second quarter, according to new data that were released on November 30th.
• Covid scenarios—how will things play out with Omicron?

  • Omicron’s impact will depend on three factors, which are, by order of importance: its transmissibility (or ability to infect a huge number of people); its severity (or potential to fuel waves of severe cases and deaths); and its ability to evade immunity (obtained either by vaccination or prior infection). Here are three scenarios for how things could play out with Omicron.
• Understanding Nicaragua’s adoption of its One-China policy

  • On December 9th the Nicaraguan government, led by Daniel Ortega, announced that it was breaking official ties with Taiwan by switching diplomatic recognition to China. In doing so, the Ortega regime jettisoned a loyal ally that has been furnishing Nicaragua with a small but important amount of financial assistance for more than 30 years.

1... << 6869707172737475767778 >> 90