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Multinational Taxation: Principles and Grey Areas
The global economy is built around companies whose operations cross borders, while their profits remain subject to national tax systems. Between transfer pricing, intellectual property, international tax treaties and the global minimum tax, multinational taxation exposes a fundam
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Cyberattacks: The Vulnerability of Powers
It is now possible to compromise a handful of computer systems and bring a production line to a halt, disrupt payments across a healthcare system or interfere with the energy supply of millions of people.
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Money Laundering: The Invisible Borders of Global Finance
Borders remain firmly in place for laws, courts, and public administrations. For capital, they have become largely negotiable.
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Global Investment Is Rising, but the Productive Economy Is Losing Momentum
Foreign direct investment is rising sharply in 2026, yet new industrial facilities, infrastructure projects, and investment commitments in developing economies are declining.
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Ownership Is No Longer Enough: Why Resources and Competitive Advantages No Longer Guarantee Economic Power
possessing a strategic advantage no longer guarantees the ability to exploit it, control it, or convert it into lasting economic power.
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Artificial Intelligence: Twenty Years of Turbulence Before Prosperity—for Whom?
Bill Gates envisages two decades of upheaval before an economy of abundance emerges. That prospect opens a debate extending far beyond the capabilities of machines.
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The Global Housing Crisis: How Real Estate Became One of the Defining Economic Divides of the 21st Century
From Madrid to Lisbon, Athens to Toronto, Nairobi to São Paulo, access to housing is becoming a major source of economic, social and political tension. Behind rising rents and property prices lies a profound transformation: housing is simultaneously a fundamental human necessity, a vehicle for wealth accumulation and an asset increasingly integrated into global capital markets. This contradiction is reshaping inequality, weakening the economic security of the middle class and challenging governments' ability to keep cities accessible to their populations.
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The Value Chain: From Natural Resources to the Most Advanced Industries
From the mine to the laboratory, from agricultural fields to semiconductors, global wealth is built through successive stages of transformation. Yet value is not distributed equally between those who possess resources, those who process them, and those who control technology. Behind every product lies a geography of economic power.
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Companies: The Architecture of Economic Power
Mergers, acquisitions, integration, alliances, restructuring, valuations and ownership transfers: how companies redraw the boundaries of capital, ownership and control.
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Automotive: The Great Shakeout
In-depth report — Restructuring, successes, failures and the outlook for the global automotive industry
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Geopolitics and Market Protectionism
Regions, industries, resources, trade instruments, regulations, taxation and scenarios. A report on how states are redefining market access and what this transformation means for economies and businesses.
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Industry: The Nations’ Income Statement
A car leaves a Moroccan factory, reaches a port terminal and boards a ship bound for Europe. At customs, its value enters the export statistics. For the manufacturer, it becomes part of the group’s revenue. For the country that built it, the calculation is only beginning.
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The Corporation: Who Owns, Who Decides, Who Profits
A brand gives a face to an organisation the consumer almost never sees. Behind its products lie arrangements that allocate rights, income and risk. From production lines to boardrooms, this dossier examines how large corporations build power, share it and lose it.