What is the future of the European Union?

To understand America’s aggressive shift on trade, you must first grasp the silent, slow building, decades-long erosion of American middle-class prosperity. This shift began well before President Trump and will outlive him. It is rooted in the col...

The IMD World Competitiveness Ranking (WCR) is a renowned tool for assessing the competitiveness of economies worldwide. This year, IMD’s World Competitiveness Center (WCC) has expanded its scope to include Kenya, Namibia, and Oman. This year's ra...

Have you ever wondered why AI and sustainability seem so promising, yet so often fail to take off inside traditional companies? Or why, despite their potential synergy, AI and sustainability are so rarely pursued together? Too often, companies tre...

The Great Trade Hack by Richard Baldwin explains how Trump’s 2025 tariff blitz wasn’t economic strategy. It was grievance politics. Tariffs, Baldwin shows, are political placebos that won’t fix the U.S. economy but could fracture the global trade ...

On 12 May 2025, China and the United States released a joint statement that ended the recent escalation in tariffs. For 90 days each agreed to lower their tariffs by 115%. This only applies to import taxes imposed since 2 April 2025—all prior tari...

This paper presents a compact and intuitive framework that consolidates, simplifies, and extends results on the links between technology, trade, and labour market outcomes. It makes three main contributions. First, it presents closed-form solution...

Guided by The Art of the Deal, Trump's trade tactics are disrupting global supply chains and driving strategic diversification.

This introduction offers a revisionist view of necessity entrepreneurship (NE). The volume editors are thereby challenging orthodox perspectives that equate NE solely with financial poverty and lack of employment and self-sustenance alternatives. ...

IMD produces a yearly Smart City Index offering a balanced focus on economic and technological aspects of smart cities on the one hand, and “humane dimensions” of smart cities (quality of life, environment, and inclusiveness) on the other. In this...

If Trump’s trade policy is the earthquake, the long-standing hardships confronting America’s middle class are the tectonic plate shifts that made it inevitable. America was hit by globalisation and robotics shocks like all advanced economies, but ...