În faza incipientă a pandemiei de COVID-19, multe state și-au luat rapid angajamentul de a asigura o „redresare verde” prin intermediul pachetelor de stimulente pe care le pregăteau. Pe măsură ce cheltuielile de salvare și redresare au crescut, a devenit din ce în ce mai dificil de stabilit care va
The European Commission proposed on 12 April to exempt from VAT the payment of goods and services which, in times of crisis, are made available to Member States and citizens by the EC, EU bodies and agencies. This approach comes in response to the experience gained during the COVID-19 pandemic.
The COVID-19 pandemic has generated an unprecedented health, economic and social crisis for the current generation. It threatens the lives and livelihoods of millions of people globally, increasing poverty and inequality, causing a decline in development in recent decades. To direct us to a
The World Bank invited many experts to a debate on the prospects for a new global debt architecture on Wednesday, April 7, 2021. Guests discussed lessons learned from past restructuring efforts, the role of the private sector, and the increased need for transparency regarding indebtedness. Minister of
The outlook for a recovery in global trade has improved, as trade in goods expanded faster in the second half of last year than expected. According to new World Trade Organization (WTO) estimates, the volume of trade in goods will increase by 8% in 2021, after
The global economy is expected to grow by 4.7% this year, above September 2020 estimates (4.3%), in part due to a stronger recovery in the United States, where progress in vaccine dose distribution and a new package of financial incentives worth $ 1.9 trillion
The European Commission has published the first preliminary impact assessment of SURE, the € 100 billion instrument designed to protect jobs and incomes from the COVID-19 pandemic. According to the findings of the report, SURE managed to mitigate the severe socio-economic impact generated by the COVID-19 crisis. Through this
In the coming years we will look back to 2020 as a time that changed everything. In no other area has there been an unprecedented increase such as that in the digital sector and online commerce, which exploded during the crisis.
One year after the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic, the future certainly looks brighter, but it is not yet time to withdraw policies to support the population and the business environment. Even though the labor force figures in many countries look better than in the second quarter
Following a sharp drop during the global pandemic, world trade in services appears to be recovering, according to the latest World Trade Organization Service Trade Barometer, which has risen above the recent trend. However, the vulnerability of some areas of activity,
