The EIU nowcast for the US economy for Q4 2020 further improved to 1.97% (quarter-on-quarter) as of last week, compared with 0.94% during the week ending 13th November..
Key performance metrics around patient, bed utilisation and elective surgery volume for 200+ top hospitals in Asia-Pacific, tracked by our latest data tracker SurgPRO, have mostly fallen for the June-August period in 2020 compared to the same duration in the previous year..
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The EIU nowcast for the US economy for Q4 2020 weakened to 1.85% (quarter-on-quarter) as of last week, compared with 1.97% during the week ending 27th November..
In most countries of the world, family sizes are getting smaller. Indeed, today’s fertility rate (the average number of children a woman will have over her lifetime) of 2.4 is half that of 1970..
In The Economist Intelligence Unit’s (EIU) latest global outlook video, Agathe Demarais, Nicholas Fitzroy and Alessandro Cugnasca discuss the outlook for the euro zone and top risks for the global economy in 2021..
The Liberal Party minority government, in its revised climate plan, has proposed to raise the federal carbon tax more than threefold by 2030 and to increase federal spending on environmental programmes by an initial C$15bn (US$12bn)..
Industrial policy—the targeted intervention of the state in particular sectors—fell out of vogue in Western economies in the 1980s. However, it has become an area of growing interest in recent years, and the coronavirus pandemic has accelerated this trend..
The year 2020 was a particularly difficult one for economic and political forecasting. Throughout the year we had to try to predict the course of the coronavirus (Covid‑19) pandemic in order to generate our forecasts..
On December 16th the National Development and Reform Commission (NDRC, the top economic-planning body) released a revised national market-access negative list that states which sectors are prohibited or restricted to private investors, both Chinese and foreign..