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China Daily, August 15, 2020. Junfu Zhao is a PhD candidate in economics at the University of Utah. Zhao can be reached at junfu.zhao [at] utah.edu. The author thanks Rudiger von Arnim, Minqi Li, and Han Cheng for their helpful comments. Following the Donald Trump administration’s publication of its 2017 National Security Strategy and 2018 National Defense Strategy that designated China as a strategic competitor, the tensions between the United States and China have been heightened, encompa...

Imperialism, the Highest Stage of Capitalism, Lenin defined the five “basic features” of imperialism: (1) the concentration of production and capital developed to such a high stage that it created monopolies which play a decisive role in economic life; (2) the merging of banking capital with industrial capital, and the creation, on the basis of this “finance capital,” of a financial oligarchy; (3) the export of capital as distinguished from the export of commodities acquires exceptional...

June 4, 2021 You are here: Home / Policy / Health / Lessons learned from Medical Education in the times of COVID-19 Lessons learned from Medical Education in the times of COVID-19 Credit: Unsplash This article was exclusively written for The European Sting by Ms. Massiel Méndez Jorge, a final-year medical student, physiology teacher, and research assistant at the Universidad Autónoma de Santo Domingo (UASD), Dominican Republic. She is affiliated with the International Federation of Medic...

Conditioning U.S. economic assistance to Israel would not be a game changer for the country — at least economically.

June 2, 2021—In a population-based analysis involving multiple countries, Png et al found that abdominal aortic aneurysm (AAA) mortality continu

EXPORTS from Pakistan continue to show an upward trend as overseas shipments jumped significantly by 13.6pc to...

The European Central Bank (ECB) is the central bank of the 19 European Union countries which have adopted the euro. Our main task is to maintain price stability in the euro area and so preserve the purchasing power of the single currency.

Philipp Hartmann, Glenn Schepens 12 May 2021 The 2020 ECB Forum on Central Banking addressed some key issues from the ongoing monetary policy strategy review and embedded them in discussions of major structural changes in advanced economies and the post-COVID recovery. In this column, two of the organisers highlight some of the main points from the papers and debates, including whether globalisation is reversing, implications of climate change, options for formulating the ECBs inflation ...

The Dynamic Relationship Between Global Debt And Output The global economy has reached record levels of indebtedness, to the concern of researchers and policymakers. On the one hand, debt can be beneficial by smoothing out consumption and accelerating capital accumulation, and thus contributing to economic output. On the other hand, rising debt increases debt service costs and can potentially expose countries to financial risks and lower output. In particular, a large expansion of debt can be a...

Carnegie Endowment for International Peace Source: Getty Summary:  Many African countries have placed economic diversification high on the policy agenda, yet they first need to define what it means in their specific structural and socioeconomic contexts. Related Media and Tools If you enjoyed reading this, subscribe for more! Thank you! Summary For decades, economic diversification has been a policy priority for low- and middle-income economies. In the words of former managing director of the ...