July 7, 2015
Among the least popular forms of taxation, property taxes are the most desirable because of their incentives, whom they target and their resilience.
July 1, 2015
Comparing debt to GDP is like looking at a mortgage loan and household net worth. It can help us decide when a sovereign debt became too large.
June 17, 2015
To grasp the huge size of the U.S. GDP we can identify countries that have similar nominal output to individual states like California and Brazil.
June 5, 2015
The market solutions and regulatory approaches used to solve the problem of elephant poaching have not worked for wildlife conservation in Africa.
June 1, 2015
Long assumed to have a direct relationship, the connection between height and GDP becomes more complex when we compare India and Africa.
May 4, 2015
While many nations have deposit Insurance and China will have theirs very soon, the quality and the confidence in different deposit insurance schemes vary.
April 13, 2015
While death rates are a seemingly easy way to assess healthcare spending, other perspectives like DALYs could be better when we consider the tradeoffs.
February 24, 2015
With better school attendance and learning, and then higher work productivity, the positive externalities of childhood vaccination have an economic impact.
February 20, 2015
Facing an aging population and more entitlements, countries that are encouraging more births to expand the labor force might be creating a bigger problem.
February 19, 2015
As population shifts, developed nations will have redistribution decisions as the proportion of the non-working aged and the young need more labor income.
February 12, 2015
GDP problems include that it's not calculated the same way in different countries, its data can be tough to gather, and its components omit important items.
December 15, 2014
Looking at internet connectivity as a part of the EU's information infrastructure, we can see how Italy is behind and reflects member nation contrasts.