The evolution of African economies since the end of the raw-materials boom has been marked by a growing heterogeneity. The EU’s development cooperation should adapt to the new realities unfolding on the continent.
Spanish Autonomous Communities (regions) and municipalities gave some US$220 million in development assistance in 2015. This accounts for a third of total Spanish bilateral ODA, making Spain the world’s most decentralised donor.
One hundred years after the end of th First World War there is again a widespread sense that we are witnessing the decline of the West and the relatively liberal world order that it erected.
Building a composite indicator is not an easy task. The Elcano Global Presence Index has gone through two rounds of evaluations with the JRC-COIN team in Ispra (Italy). We write about three things that we thought we would never learn from a statistician (or from a group of statisticians).
With its current seat on the Human Rights Council (2018-20), Spain should strive to continue and revitalise its foreign policy in respect to reinforcing both the UN and multilateralism.
If the EU were a single country, its global presence would be almost as large as that of the US.
The G20 has different priorities: the future of work in the digital age, sustainable infrastructure and food security, with the possible addition of the fight against corruption. They are issues that concern Argentina especially, and virtually all the others, if not all.
Shop window, megaphone and venue for discreet meetings: Davos is all these things. The main participants at the most recent World Economic Forum were the major states.
Spain maintains its 12th position in the Elcano Global Presence Index, although it has lost some measure of global presence in all of its dimensions (as have the other countries of the region).
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