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South-South cooperation has a long way to go

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INTERNATIONAL

Foreign development assistance from and to countries in the ‘Global South’ aims to disrupt not only the established direction of aid flows from the northern to the southern…

R&D spending could help global productivity recovery

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INTERNATIONAL

High on the agenda is the need for science to work across disciplines to address complex societal problems. In 2015, research and development (R&D) funding increased by 5.1…

COVID-19 may permanently alter long-term energy demand

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INTERNATIONAL

Policy responses to the global recession have the potential either to accelerate or retard the energy transition. Economic and social behavioural change as a result of forced…

Prospects for the global economy to end-2020

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PROSPECTS 2020 H2

COVID-19 dominates the scenarios for the next six months, which range from a swift sharp recovery to another dramatic fall in activity. Policy responses, financial markets…

Biden bets on US industrial strategy to arrest decline

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UNITED STATES

The administration is adopting a 'whole of government' approach to arrest economic decline, enhance resilience, protect the environment, check inequality and revive well-paying…

Velez vote will strengthen Colombia’s Petro for now

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COLOMBIA

Velez and her anti-extractive views are broadly unpopular, but the government is unwilling to yield on its conviction that Colombia must wean itself off hydrocarbons. It will…

EU may fall behind on innovation

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EU

More than half the total growth in output of developed countries over the past 30 years resulted from innovation, according to OECD estimates. Promoting innovation has thus become…

Central European tech sector needs help to scale up

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CENTRAL EUROPE

Tallinn is keen to showcase its success in developing its digital capabilities in both the public and private sectors. Estonia is one of a cluster of nine EU tech-sector…

Greece elections may trigger political instability

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GREECE

Greece is bracing for a tight contest, with Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis’s New Democracy (ND) party’s lead over its main rival, the leftist Syriza, narrowing. The…