How Performance Audits Can Drive Efficiency and Development Impact
Performance audits play a crucial role in improving the management and use of public funds, resulting in more effective and efficient government operations. Enhancing the
It’s time for the European Union to rethink personal social networking
The European Union’s Digital Markets Act (DMA) includes interoperability requirements for messaging services but not for personal social networking platforms. These gatekeeper platforms have seen little increase
Long-term care policies in practice: a European perspective
This paper offers a comprehensive study of the long-term care (LTC) systems in Germany, France, Slovenia, Italy and Denmark. In many EU countries, the demand
The US defence industrial base can no longer reliably supply Europe
The United States under the outgoing Biden administration has supported the transatlantic relationship, both through NATO and by providing support to Ukraine. At the same
Finance for nature: how to improve funding for the protection of biodiversity
The economics of biodiversity are still little understood and the loss of nature, which provides pollination, clean water and other ecosystem services, is often considered
Carbon leakage through firms’ supply chain adaptation
By increasing the cost of using fossil fuels, carbon taxes should incentivise substitution toward cleaner energy. In practice, firms may shift production and emissions across
Heterogeneous firm upgrading and energy intensity
Energy intensity and efficiency are at the core of the green transition. Using a new firm-level complexity index, this column shows that product upgrading and
Italy demands full disclosure from UniCredit over BPM bid, sources say
Italy wants UniCredit to disclose full terms of its proposed takeover of smaller rival Banco BPM under “golden power” rules EU governments can use to screen investments
Starbucks largely loses appeal over baristas’ firing in NLRB case
A federal appeals court on Friday largely rejected Starbucks appeal of a National Labor Relations Board finding the coffee chain illegally fired two Philadelphia baristas
Wall St finishes down after sell-off at end of strong holiday-shortened week
Wall Street’s holiday cheer ended abruptly on Friday, with all three main benchmarks closing lower in a broad-based sell-off affecting even tech and growth stocks
