And the winner is… the US economy. Stunning outlook by Peterson Institute economists Karen Dynan, Tianlei Huang and Maury Obstfeld.

Shocking indeed that in the 1950’s, more than 20% of all children died so prematurely. In the course of six decades, child mortality has been divided by about 6. Stunning progress!

A great ⁦The New York Times⁩ story on how investing in China helped #Tesla get out of the crisis it was in and how Tesla’s competition triggered the transformation of the Chinese auto industry. podcasts.apple.com/fr/podcast/the…

Fascinating. This graph illustrates better than long analyses the extent to which the global economy has changed in less than 20 years.

Same in Europe. I have train tickets awaiting the day I will have the courage to fill in endless forms. I has gotten worse with technical progress. Makes me crazy.

I want to vent. Suppose you have given a talk in a university or at a Fed. You want to be reimbursed for the plane ticket and two taxi receipts. To do this, you are directed to a portal which clearly has been designed to handle all suppliers, including contractors, etc. It…

Super interesting new paper on why people hate inflation. A major reason is that people overwhelmingly ascribe wage increases to their own efforts, while they blame price increases on policy.

Nous avons trop longtemps laissé Bruxelles nous fixer des orientations budgétaires, que d’ailleurs nous ne respectons pas. Il est plus que temps de définir nos propres principes de responsabilité budgétaire. Ma chronique
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Comment organiser l’action collective pour le climat dans un monde fragmenté : c’est le sujet central des prochaines années. Mon debat Public Sénat avec Dorothée Rouzet et Sébastien Jean. Le Printemps de l'économie . urlz.fr/q9An

.Jean Pisani-Ferry : « Laisser dériver la dette publique serait très dangereux »
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#printempsdeleco : « On a établi des systèmes pour libéraliser dans un moment où les règles du commerce étaient dominantes. Aujourd’hui on a une concurrence d’autres normes : les normes environnementales, sanitaires, de la sécurité nationale… », pointe Jean Pisani-Ferry. #SensPublic

#Protectionnisme : « La Chine est en train de prendre à grande vitesse son virage vers l’économie verte. Mais l’idée que tout le monde allait nous rejoindre, exactement avec la même stratégie, c’était une illusion », tranche Jean Pisani-Ferry. #printempsdeleco #SensPublic

NEW BOOK🚨In last few years, some of us at Bruegel tried to develop the first comprehensive mapping of the macroeconomic implications of decarbonisation, and to shed light on the possible policy responses. The result is this Cambridge University Press book, now available🌍. Reviews in🧵

A very useful tool created by my Bruegel colleagues. Simone Tagliapietra

The World Bank published today the new poverty data, covering the period of the pandemic up to 2022.

After decades of progress, the world saw the first increase in extreme poverty during COVID.

A towering figure. His views have enlightened many readers.

.Pascal Saint-Amans revisits the perennial debate on the EU's own resources . And he sheds new light on it. bruegel.org/policy-brief/b… via Bruegel

NEW🚨To foster competitiveness, the EU needs to adopt a 'Coordination for competitiveness' (C4C) strategy based on medium-term, sector-level coordination of Member State reform policies and/or investments. Starting with energy and innovation.
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In this new ⁦Bruegel⁩ paper, we are (a) attempting to make sense of the debate on competitiveness, (b) assessing the situation of the #EU , and (c) making proposals for a new approach. ⁦Jeromin Zettelmeyer⁩ ⁦Georg Zachmann⁩. bruegel.org/external-publi…

On pense souvent que les élections européennes ne servent à rien. Erreur ! Ma chronique LeMonde.fr (sans paywall)
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