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. Topusko is not where you...
Emerging Europe Insight
The byline Emerging Europe Insight is used to denote articles to which several members of the Emerging Europe/Reinvantage team may have contributed.
Montenegro is closing in on European Union membership. Croatia’s experience suggests businesses have less time to prepare than they think. It’s been a long old slog...
In the first of a short series of articles looking at the economy of Mongolia, we take a look at where the country has made good progress. When Moody’s and S&P...
The IMF’s headline growth and forecast figures probably matter far less than they appear to. So why continue to make such a fuss about them? On April 14, Pierre-Olivier...
Inside Lithuania’s bold push to build entrepreneurs before they graduate, a model that could redefine how we prepare for the future of work. Education systems across...
Governments in Europe and Central Asia are spending heavily on steering their economies. They are mostly pointing in the wrong direction. The World Bank rarely minces...
Tajikistan’s IT sector barely exists. Recent digital governance initiatives at least suggest some ambition, but progress is painfully slow. Tajikistan occupies an...
Armenia’s economy is thriving as it loosens ties with Russia and embraces the European Union. That is almost certainly not a coincidence. It was, even by the...
Hungary’s exhausted growth model may depend on a change of government to get moving again. For a country that built its modern economic identity on luring foreign...
Europe throws billions at its defence sector. Ukraine’s kitchen-table innovators are already cashing in. Great news for Ukrainian housewives. The European Commission...
With ICT exports at 5.02 per cent of GDP and value added at 8.51 per cent, Serbia has built the Balkans’ most export-oriented tech sector. Serbia has assembled one...