Economic issues are covereded from a political economy perspective: changes in the global economic system, governance and institutions, dynamics and trends in different economic zones (USA, Russia, China, Emerging ...). European problems are given special attention.
Associate Director of Ifri's Geoeconomics and Geofinance initiative
A widely held consensus view claims that East Asia has been shifting recently from a market-led to an institution-based form of regional economic integration, primarily as a result of the 1997-1998 financial crisis. Next to post-crisis financial cooperation schemes under the...
European Aid Ministers qualified 2008 as 'crucial for the development and the achievement of the Millennium Development Goals (MDO)'. So, the French presidency of the EU council devotes a part of its activities to Aid cooperation, mostly based on initiatives launched by Germany in 2007. In...
La présidence de George Bush se solde par un désastre : l'Irak, la corruption, l'incompétence, l'irresponsabilité financière et, en toile de fond, une économie qui rappelle celle de la fin de XIXe siècle, douce aux riches, dure pour les pauvres et surtout menaçante pour les classes moyennes....
This article is illustrative of the way of thinking among young Chinese economists who try to comprehend all the constraints that bear upon China's development today.
Since the second half of the 1980s, the global economy has been integrating ever more closely through multiform exchanges and the participation of more countries in these exchanges. In recent years, the integration of large emerging countries into global networks has altered the dynamics of...
The movement of proliferation of regional trade agreements (RTAs), since the creation of the WTO, stands out from previous movements due to its dynamism, the intertwining of agreements (bilateral, regional and multilateral), the ambition displayed in these agreements, and...
Since the late 1980s a number of regional developments have impacted upon South Korea's political and economic standing in Asia. China's spectacular growth and closer integration with its neighbouring economies, along with a tendency toward more assertive political and...
Until recently, the only formal body of regional integration in East Asia was the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) which had been established in 1967, primarily for political reasons and with modest economic ambitions. As a result, East Asia has long been said to be the champion...
