Shutterstock / Sergey Nivens Carlos Alberto Lastras Rodríguez, Universidad Nebrija El crecimiento económico depende de varios factores entre los que destacan el ahorro y el cambio tecnológico. Vivimos actualmente en una espiral de inflación generada por la crisis global de suministros, la intensa dependencia energética y la invasión que sufre Ucrania por parte de Rusia. Además, tras cerca de dos …
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The World Bank’s ease of doing business index incentives countries to do whatever they can to improve their ranking. Jongho Shin/iStock via Getty Images Fernanda G Nicola, American University The World Bank, a behemoth of an organization that provides tens of billions of dollars in aid to mostly developing countries, is in the middle of one of its biggest scandals …
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John Nagle, Queen’s University Belfast and Tamirace Fakhoury, Aalborg University Few Lebanese people will be surprised that the latest leak of offshore financial documents alleges senior Lebanese figures, including the current prime minister, have used offshore tax havens (although Najib Mikati, a businessman who took the top job in July, has denied this). That the so-called Pandora Papers lists Lebanon …
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Forced from their homes by fighting between the Taliban and Afghan government forces, thousands of families seek refuge in a Kabul park. Haroon Sabawoon/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images Abdulkader Sinno, Indiana University The United States invaded Afghanistan in late 2001 with the goal of destroying al-Qaida and its Taliban hosts and, supposedly, establishing a democratic Afghan state and helping Afghan …
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