The Southern Renaissance: Europe’s New Investment Hub For more than a decade, the international financial community viewed Southern Europe exclusively through the lens of sovereign risk. In the wake of the 2008…
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More from economyThe Southern Renaissance: Europe’s New Investment Hub For more than a decade, the international financial community viewed Southern Europe exclusively through the lens of sovereign risk. In the wake of the 2008 crisis, the pejorative acronym “PIIGS” had cast Spain, Portugal, Italy, and Greece in the role of fragile, structurally dependent, and…
Big Tech in the New Economic Reality “Tenuous resilience amid persistent uncertainty” describes the prevailing global economic condition, characterized by the International Monetary Fund in its World Economic Outlook Update (January 2026). Contraction, exposure, tightened…
Vietnam as a Manufacturing Alternative: Exports, Industry, and Supply Chains Under U.S. Tariff Pressure. The New Geography of Global Manufacturing When the United States began imposing sweeping tariffs on Chinese goods in 2018, the immediate question for multinational corporations was not whether to diversify their supply chains, but where to…
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In January 2025 President Trump’s inauguration took place. This is now Trump’s second term as the US president. Many analysts…
Uzbekistan has significantly transformed its economy during the past decade, focusing on market reforms, export diversification, and other economic measures. Its economy has had resilient economic performance since the 1990s,…
Big tech companies, especially the Magnificent 7 (Alphabet, Amazon, Apple, Meta Platforms, Microsoft, NVIDIA, and Tesla), have long been the most attractive and yet most overvalued investment assets. The AI boom has only made the rally for high-tech…
WEJ TECHNOLOGY AWARD 2025 CELEBRATING TECHNOLOGIES THAT SHAPE RESILIENT AND INCLUSIVE FUTURE The WEJ Technology Award 2025 recognizes technology-driven solutions that accelerate progress across critical sectors: economy, infrastructure, governance, ecology, and social sustainability. This award highlights the strategic…
The advent of industrialization has seen a massive shift of people from the countryside and villages to urban environments. Per a UN report, a point has been reached that now 55% of global citizens inhabit urban environments and…
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The global economy is facing enormous pressure. The 2025-2026 period has been marked with rising economic risks. Geopolitical uncertainty and deteriorating foreign relations between the U.S. and other…
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The Southern Renaissance: Europe’s New Investment Hub For more than a decade, the international financial community viewed Southern Europe exclusively through the lens of sovereign risk. In the wake of the 2008 crisis, the pejorative acronym “PIIGS” had cast Spain,…
World Economic Journal Marks Its 50th Global Edition: A Deep Dive into Big Tech, Trade Wars, and the Future of Innovation World Economic Journal celebrates its milestone 50th global issue with a sweeping analysis of global economic transformation…
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Manufacturing Realignment in Asia: India’s Position in Global Supply Chains Global supply chains are evolving through the confluence of two important impacts, each creating a new layer of uncertainty in developing and maintaining cross-border production networks. First, the imposition of American tariffs on China in 2018, imposed under Section 301…
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Switzerland as a Capital Hub in the New European Financial Architecture Why Switzerland still…
Big Tech in the New Economic Reality “Tenuous resilience amid persistent uncertainty” describes the…
Manufacturing Realignment in Asia: India’s Position in Global Supply Chains Global supply chains are…
World Economic Journal — May–July 2026 Issue Europe Between Diagnosis and Execution The May–July 2026 issue of World Economic Journal examines Europe at a moment when competitiveness, capital, technology and…
For decades, asset safety was defined by labels. Inflation stayed stable. Large markets like U.S. Treasuries remained liquid in stress. Diversification worked because bonds typically rose when equities fell. Political…
Introduction: Indonesia’s Strategic Pivot Looking at the Indonesian economy in early 2026, there is a visible and intensifying paradox: the nation sits on the world’s most critical maritime “chokepoints,” yet…
It seems like the era of stability is over for the financial markets simply because it is hard to predict what the future has in store for the financial world.…
INTERNATIONAL AWARDS SERIES FOR CHANGE LEADERS WEJ Awards 2026 is a prestigious international award series established by World Economic Journal. It celebrates achievements that shape the future of the economy,…
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Mario Draghi Italian economist, banker and statesman Prime Minister of Italy (2021–2022), former President of the European Central Bank (2011–2019) «It is that, over time, we will inexorably become less…
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World Economic Journal Marks Its 50th Global Edition: A Deep Dive into Big Tech, Trade Wars, and the Future of Innovation World Economic Journal celebrates its milestone 50th global issue…
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Mario Draghi Italian economist, banker and statesman Prime Minister of Italy (2021–2022), former President…
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