North Macedonia can accelerate growth and create more and better-paid jobs with the right reforms. A targeted set of reforms, focused on strengthening governance...
Emerging Europe Insight
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StartupBlink’s 2026 Global Startup Ecosystem Index recorded 91.9 per cent growth in Moldova, the highest in Europe and third-highest worldwide. It may still only be...
As Washington raises its tariff walls, Brussels keeps collecting trade partners, and rebranding free trade as self-defence. The European Commission brought its interim...
Teacher shortages are putting pressure on education systems across the OECD. Teacher shortages affect most OECD education systems to varying degrees, with recruitment...
Trans-Caspian Transport Corridor investments could spur growth and create millions of jobs Across Europe and Central Asia. Countries in Europe and Central Asia could...
Governments are pouring record public sums into space. But the returns, and above all the rockets, still belong mostly to America and China. Space may well be the final...
Teenagers read worse than they did, the newest PISA scores find. Ban their social media if you like; the adults, who vote, fare no better. Amidst a deluge of short-form...
Germany showed the world what reuniting a country costs. For Moldova, the road west through Brussels looks cheaper and considerably safer. It’s often said that the...
OpenAI is putting ads in ChatGPT and Anthropic will not touch them. It is hardly a reinvention, yet ads never stopped anyone using Google. Artificial...
A competitive Africa requires functional institutions and modern technology. Not just declarations of intent, but implementation capacity. Africa trades as much as East...
Reykjavik wants the market without the politics. So do Europe’s wealthiest hold-outs, and Britain, above all, ought to be taking note. So Iceland will not be...
Airlines are dividing their cabins into an increasingly wide array of often confusing options. Do you fly Business Light or Premium Economy? It used to be so simple...