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The post-crisis recovery remains robust, but continues to be uneven, with rising divergence between advanced and emerging economies. Euler Hermes analysts expect omicron-related uncertainty to shave off (only) up to -0.3pp of GDP growth in…

Against the backdrop of new outbreaks of the global Covid-19 virus, policy and volatility in demand and logistics during the Chinese New Year, disrupting the global supply chain will remain a problem until the second half of 2022. After an…

In 2020, Covid-19 narrowed the prosperity gap between rich and poor countries as the former were at first the most affected. In addition, the crisis may also have accelerated long-term structural trends that will not be favorable to many…

As expectations of a post-pandemic demand catch-up in Europe are building up, rising commodity and input prices will test firms’ ability to charge more for their products and services without losing business, a CFA, Euler Hermes analysis…

As governments race to contain new and more contagious variants of Covid-19, ‘travel passes’ or ‘vaccine passports’ won’t be enough to revive tourism: the industry could only see a recovery in 2024, according to a Euler Hermes report.…

Euler Hermes together with Qualetrics, an experience management company, conducted a survey between September 28 and October 21, 2020 on the impact of the Covid-19 pandemic on economic decisions and some risk perceptions, on a…

An unprecedented rise in the inactive population since February has seen more than 30 million workers going missing from official unemployment statistics across selected OECD and Emerging Market economies. Because of this ”hidden…

The Covid-19 pandemic marked a turning point for ‘unconventional’ monetary policies in Emerging Markets (EMs), several of which embarked on government bond purchase programs to address market dislocations and ease monetary conditions in the…

All eyes on the European consumer: Private consumption is key in determining the shape and speed of the Covid-19 recovery. Given the sharp setback in consumer spending in H1 2020, which far exceeded anything seen during the Great Financial…

The crisis generated by the pandemic highlights the weak economic foundations. An Euler Hermes analysis predicts that the Romanian economy will register the worst quarterly contraction of more than 20 years in the second…