Central Europe’s digital economy is growing nicely, but few people have noticed that most of its firms are not actually using it. When Janusz Dziurzyński, president of...
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The CEE Leadership Upgrade: The Political Pillar. Central and Eastern Europe (CEE) has become very good at managing problems. It is far less good at imagining its future...
Methodology this year favours reinvention: a response to the limits, increasingly visible, of traditional investment promotion practices. We have once again ranked the...
Georgia and Armenia outrank most of the EU’s East on economic freedom. Membership need not change that. On October 12 Ursula von der Leyen asked EU leaders to sign...
Fewer than one in seven of Europe’s primary teachers is a man. Governments want to recruit many more of them, but fail to find them. In April of last year, while...
Too many states greet every unicorn as a national triumph. However, the louder a country cheers a start-up, the smaller it starts to sound. There’s no doubt that...
From catching up to shaping Europe: Five strategic resets, and a 5C Framework for winning the Second Age of Leadership in emerging Europe. For thirty years, Central and...
Unicorns are badges of honour for many countries, but the success of a start-up ecosystem cannot be measured by mythical creatures alone. Just six months after Cast AI...
The memory crunch is a fab story. The quieter squeeze, one step later, in advanced packaging, runs through a few makers of ultrafast lasers. Tim Cook told the Wall...
The 21st century will be shaped not only by the rise of Asia, but by regions that connect continents, such as Central and Eastern Europe. For more than a generation...
Across the Baltics and the Balkans, shrinking countries are betting everything on one major city. Entire regions risk being left in limbo. Adrian Nikolov of the...
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...