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The Commodity Markets Outlook in eight charts

The views expressed in the Let’s Talk Development blog are solely those of the author(s). Commodity prices are projected to...

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May 13, 2025
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Do governments adhere to their approved budgets? Insights from PEFA...

Why budget reliability matters Accurate revenue and expenditure forecasting is crucial for effective budgeting to ensure that governments can adequately...

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May 13, 2025
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Extreme weather and nature loss: can the private sector be...

In 2018, after 3 years of droughts, the city of Cape Town in South Africa faced severe water shortages. Dam...

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May 13, 2025
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Agreed and disagreed uncertainty: Rethinking the macroeconomic impact of uncertainty

The conventional wisdom is that uncertainty leads to economic contractions, but recent evidence challenges this assumption. This column introduces two...

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May 13, 2025
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When illusions of wealth shape the economy: Understanding pseudo-wealth, macroeconomic...

Pseudo-wealth is a perception of wealth that is not backed by real economic resources. When people have widely different beliefs,...

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May 13, 2025
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Oil prices climb 2% to two-week high on US-China tariff...

Oil prices climbed about 2% to a two-week high on Monday after the U.S. and China agreed to temporarily slash...

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May 12, 2025
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NRG Energy shares hit all-time high on $12 billion power...

NRG Energy said on Monday it would acquire power generation assets from energy infrastructure investment firm LS Power in a...

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May 12, 2025
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Lessons for the European Central Bank from the 2021-2023 inflationary...

Since mid-2021, the euro-area economy has gone through several shocks, leading to the highest inflation since the creation of the...

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May 12, 2025
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Human capital formation as a key component in Europe’s defence...

Government spending on defence, particularly defence R&D, can have significant economic spillovers. This column argues that the forthcoming European defence...