No, one more lane will not make any difference: widening roads remains a fool’s errand. Cities that price driving honestly get fewer cars. ...
Analysis
Governments in rich countries are pushing up the cost of hiring despite possible alternatives for raising revenue not being in short supply...
The Last Word: AI’s next battle is not the model, but the organisation. From ‘What can the model do?’ to ‘What can the organisation absorb...
Kazakhstan’s economy is growing at a decent rate, but its workforce is not. Schools, vocational training, and adult skills must be improved...
Mongolia has a bold plan, a surplus, and good demographics. The economy still runs on copper, however, and the copper boom is part of why. ...
As bilateral aid retreats, the world’s development banks are reaching further than ever. Their critics worry that they have lost the plot. ...
The Last Word: Leadership alignment, behaviour, and talent matter far more than whether employees are merely experimenting with AI tools...
Half of Europeans never use public transport. Freebies are an easy answer, but as some countries have found out, they don’t ease congestion...
Restrictions on the export of critical raw materials are surging. Producers may regret it, for they deliver revenue, briefly, but then what...
Geography is becoming the least interesting barrier between Canada and the European Union. But the maple leaf will never fly over Brussels...
The Last Word: The future belongs to those who fix what they once ignored, and build organisations that deliver innovation when it matters...
Growth in CEE is so far holding up against the Iran energy shock. But the extended-workbench model is faltering. Growth across most of the...
A 50 billion euros data centre in a Croatian backwater is exactly the kind of project that the Three Seas Initiative was created to deliver...