“The Flawed COVID-19 Model That Locked Down Canada” By Peter St. Onge and Gaël Campan, courtesy of IEDM Before mid-March, most Canadians saw COVID-19 as an overseas problem. The emphasis was on returning Canadians stuck in China, and there had been a single COVID-19 death in Canada, a BC man in his 80s with […]
Economic recovery after COVID-19 requires a clear vision for a healthy banking sector By Alexander Lehmann and Reiner Martin, courtesy of the Bruegel Institute The end of payment holidays and the winding-down of public support schemes in the post-COVID-19 recovery will expose large stocks of non-performing loans (NPLs). European Central Bank estimates, based on earlier […]
“Why Egypt is not on a path to end its long struggle with poverty” By Mahmoud Farouk, courtesy of Atlas Network In 1979, Fouad Ajami wrote that Egypt finds herself between her “pride and place, between her limited material resources and her unbounded psychological esteem for herself, between her old glory and her current poverty.” […]
