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Bank supervisors in the European Union have shown no improvement in publishing data on the institutions they supervise. In fact, supervisory transparency has deteriorated since our 2013 survey of bank data disclosures (G...
US business investment—including research and development (R&D) outlays to create intellectual property—hasn't exactly sparkled in recent years (figure 1). Anemic investment is a key reason that US GDP lags 3.6 percent b...
Last week, Marc Noland walked through WFP/FAO food security report, and reports that North Korea might be entering a new phase of shortages (for example, here from the FAO itself).