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The new IMF DataMapper is really cool and useful.It makes available a wide selection of key economic indicators from 12 of the organization’s datasets.
In her recent article “I want to climb the social ladder” for the newspaper Publico, Susana Peralta discusses the results of a recent study about social mobility in Portugal. (…)
Susana Peralta wrote an article calling for the participation of citizens in local politics – voting on the municipal elections of October 1st is the the most important act of participation, but not the single one. (…)
In an article in Público, Francesco Franco stresses the role of lender of last resort for the euro to overcome the next financial crisis. In Portuguese.
Francesco Franco recently participated in a Med7 conference where he presented the case for a small insurance scheme to cope with asymmetric shocks across Euro states.
At the Forum Arte Contemporanea Italiana José Tavares discussed the many grounds for dialogue between economics and the arts.
José Tavares interviews Dani Rodrik on the benefits, costs and threats to globalization. Part of a series on the future of freedom, sponsored by Fundação Francisco Manuel dos Santos.
(…) Two former students from Nova, Luís Fonseca and Miguel Aguiar, have summoned the Simpsons to explain the algebra and illustrate the mechanism.