Economics

People living through conflict frequently tell us about the massive environmental changes they are witnessing. But what happens when climate change is added as a risk factor to armed conflicts. What is the link that connects these two themes apparently different such as similar? The ICRC Statement to UN Security Council was on ""Addressing the impacts of climate-related disasters on international peace and security". At the end of the paper, we will assume that peace is an important condition for better improving the situation of civilians and the environment.

In a World where conflicts are increasing and hunger is used as a weapon, how is it possible to deal with this issue? In this paper the analysis starts from the situation defined in the MENA region after the Arab Spring and how it is developed during the time. After that, the comparison between the Syrian Arab Republic, Yemen and the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan is necessary to understand how concretely the situation in that specific place is. At the end, the solution proposed is that for eliminating hunger, we should stop doing conflicts but, as soon as the latest events in Middle East told us, this seems impossible.

Everyone knows that the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia is one of the most important oil and fossils producers and exporting country in the world, for the OPEC Annual Statistic Bulletin 2020. But what happens if the country of oil production, adopting the Vision 2030 launched by the Royal Family in 2016, decides to make an energy transition in the renewables? Surely there will be a change in the global economic equilibrium moved by the production and the use of oil and, from a geopolitical point of view, how Khashoggi’s case has changed the view of the importing countries towards the KSA and what are the prospects for the next future.

The objective of this paper is to explore why some countries perform better than others in managing the current economic crisis, which started in 2007 in the US financial sector. I will elaborate on this question using the Crisis Management Index, taking into consideration GDP and labour market performance among European Union member states. My findings conclude that countries which performed better during the economic crisis of 2007-2011 are countries which do not have a flexible labour market and have managed to keep stable employment levels. These countries combine a very good mix of economic policies and social institutions oriented to stabilize the level of consumption and the aggregate demand. Coordination mechanisms, higher level of financial regulation and monitoring are also important features of these economies. Clearly, this group of countries identifies better, in the EU, a coordinated market economy model.