Spain’s flourishing tourism: the mainstay of the economy
Tourism is the most flourishing part of the country’s otherwise ailing domestic economy and together with increased exports has played a major role in pulling Spain out of its long recession.
Technology and economics
BRIC nationalism
The election of Narendra Modi in India has marked the arrival of another nationalist at the head of a BRIC. This new BRIC nationalism is accompanied in many cases by the attempts to boost the economies of these countries, with various formulas.
Spanish economy: growing at last but hardly denting unemployment
The Spanish economy is now firmly out of recession and jobs are beginning to be created, particularly in the services sector, but the stubbornly high unemployment rate will not dip below 20% until 2017, according to the government’s forecasts.
Spain: foreign direct investment on the rise
The growth in foreign direct investment in Spain in 2013 underscores the increased international confidence in an economy that is beginning to recover from a five-year recession, albeit weakly.
China: bracing itself for financial turbulence
The Chinese financial markets might have to see a few market players stumble and fall in order for the reform process to continue its course on a sustainable path.
US-EU trade negotiations: what is at stake?
The trade negotiations between the EU and the US are motivated more by geopolitical than economic considerations.
Spain’s banking crisis: a light in the tunnel
The Spanish banking system, hard hit by its massive exposure to toxic real estate assets following the collapse of the country’s property market in 2008, is on the mend.
The Geopolitics of the TTIP seen from Beijing
Chinese officials have the suspicion that both the currently negotiated TPP agreement and the TTIP project pushed forward by the Obama Administration have economic but also geopolitical objectives.
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