Introduction Governments and central banks have pinned a lot of their credibility on returning the world economy, after the Pandemic and the inflation shock, to an orderly picture of inflation…
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Introduction Financial regulators and governments have made much of their success in restoring the global financial system to a state of stability after the Global Financial Crisis and the Eurozone…
On 25 April 2023, the European Parliament passed the Net-Zero Industry Act (NZIA) as a significant component of the Green Deal Industrial Plan, with 361 votes in favor, 121 against,…
Winding-up order issued against Evergrande – what does this mean for the Chinese authorities?
Introduction On January 29th 2024 international creditors gained a winding-up order against China Evergrande Group (‘Evergrande’) in the Hong Kong courts.1 This is a test case for the rights and…
Last October, US Secretary of State Anthony Blinken declared: “We are at an inflection point. The post-Cold War world has come to an end, and there is an intense competition underway…