There is a reason why populism and income inequality have been on the Davos agenda for years even though nothing much has come out of it.

Views with Acuity: Insights to Build Resilience (May 28) While it is easy to get lost in COVID-19's doom and gloom narrative, take a step back and remember that humans are extraordinary beings. We possess an innate ability to transcend crises, from advances in technology to game-changing medical discoveries. Human resilience — to bounce back, to thrive and grow in spite of adversity — is alive and kicking. The pandemic is grave, no doubt, but in the depths of a crisis, human

After months of doom and gloom, we finally have some reasonably good news. Countries around the world are taking concrete steps to reopen.

The effects of the pandemic will be massive. So are the governmental responses. Let's have some hope in human resilience, ingenuity and tenacity – and of course some good luck We here at Country Acuity Advisors don’t like to throw around the “H” word lightly, but US $8 trillion deserves it: that is an absolutely HUGE monetary injection. In fact, this is one of the largest outlays in recent times both in terms of absolute dollar and relative to global GDP. For context, China s

Foreign investors search for yield and some deepening of domestic financial sectors as well as #financification of economies has led to the rise in #Frontiermarkets debt (public and private). Longer term debt is a relative positive, but this is also the first time servicing foreign debt for some economies. The uses of debt will ultimately determine if it was worthwhile. i.e., was it spent of frivolous projects, subsidies etc or on more productive investments such as infras