The recovery of the world economy is evolving with a considerable degree of heterogeneity across countries. While the recovery in emerging countries, in particular in Eastern Asia, was very pronounced, it was disappointingly slow in most advanced economies. For example, the upturn was quite...

Europäische Währungsunion am Scheideweg - Die Europäische Währungsunion (EWU) steht 13 Jahre nach ihrer Gründung vor den größten Herausforderungen ihrer Geschichte. Hohe Arbeitslosigkeit in mehreren Mitgliedsländern, massiver Konsolidierungsbedarf in vielen Staatshaushalten und in...

The European Union at the crossroads - Thirteen years after its foundation, the European Monetary Union (EMU) is facing the greatest challenge of its history thus far. High unemployment in a number of member countries, the need for substantial consolidation of the budgets of numerous...