The European Central Bank (ECB) has published its Convergence Report 2010, which assesses the economic and legal convergence of nine Member States of the European Union (EU): Bulgaria, the Czech Republic, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Hungary, Poland, Romania and Sweden. The report examines whether a sufficient degree of sustainable economic convergence has been achieved in these [...]
Adecco has presented the results of the latest edition of its labor market index of the Spanish autonomous regions (ILCA, for its Spanish acronym), which was conducted by IESE-IRCO researchers. The report covers the third quarter of 2009 and includes forecasts for the first quarter of 2010.
The main conclusions of the study are:
Evolution of the [...]
In June there were 1,386,500 young people working in Spain, just over half the total figure in 1976. This is largely due to the ageing population. However, there can be no denying that the situation has been severely exacerbated by the recent sharp rise in unemployment, which now affects as much as 38.1% of those [...]
Spain has dropped 11 places to 62nd position in the World Bank’s Doing Business 2010 survey, which measures the ease or the obstacles to doing business in 183 countries worldwide. Among the members of the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD), only Luxembourg, Czech Republic, Greece, Italy lagged behind Spain. The three best counties [...]
The latest IESE-Adecco Labor Euroindex, conducted by IESE researchers, analyzes, using a number of different variables, the performance during the first quarter of 2009 of seven European countries representing over 75 percent of the population and GDP of the 25 EU Members: Germany, France, United Kingdom, Italy, Spain, Portugal and Poland.
All of these countries have [...]
The Asian Development Bank (ADB) has launched a new annual publication, Asia Capital Markets Monitor, which assesses the status and challenges for the region’s markets. The ACMM covers eleven economies of emerging Asia: the People’s Republic of China; Hong Kong, China; India; Indonesia; the Republic of Korea; Malaysia; the Philippines; Singapore; Taipei, China; Thailand, and [...]
The United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific (ESCAP) has just launched the 2009 edition of its “Economic and Social Survey of Asia and the Pacific.” It focuses on the convergence of three global crises – an economic downturn, food and fuel price volatility, and climate change – on Asia and [...]
The United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) has launched its report “The Global Economic Crisis: Systemic Failures and Multilateral Remedies.” The study investigates three interrelated issues that UNCTAD sees as the core areas to be dealt with by international economic policy-makers for they can only be addressed through recognition of their multilateral dimension, [...]
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Economists at the World Bank predicted on Sunday that the global economy and the volume of global trade would both shrink this year for the first time since World War II. Developing countries face a financing shortfall of $270-700 billion this year, as private sector creditors shun emerging markets, and only one quarter of [...]
The European Commission has carried out a through review of EU expansion from 2004 to 2007 in its recently-published report, Five Years of an Enlarged EU: Economic Achievements and Challenges. There can be no doubt that in 2004 at least some of the 15 existing EU countries were initially sceptical about the benefits of enlargement [...]
