Macroeconomics

The 2023 Global Opportunity Index (GOI) report focuses on Emerging Middle Income G20 countries, including India, Indonesia, Argentina, Turkey, and China. Five years after the first GOI report focusing on Emerging G20 countries, the 2023 GOI...

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The impacts of climate change on our planet’s finely tuned ecosystems are escalating. Extreme climatic events are multiplying, sea levels are rising, and polar ice loss is accelerating. What had been biblical is now commonplace. Whether...

This report uses the 2022 Global Opportunity Index (GOI) and its various categories to examine the attractiveness of emerging Southeast Asia as a foreign investment destination—especially when compared to other emerging markets and...

The Global Opportunity Index assesses countries' attractiveness to international investors using a combination of economic, financial, institutional, and regulatory factors. These factors are divided into the following five categories...

Environmental, social, and governance (ESG) issues have become increasingly important in recent years for investors, spurring companies to be more socially responsible and open about their ESG efforts. This trend is particularly true for...

We cannot avoid the first health-policy-induced recession in US history. A severe recession (especially a double-digit decline in Q2 GDP growth), is now “baked in.” Political jockeying has delayed much-needed US fiscal cash injections to...

Milken Institute chief economist William Lee appeared on CNBC's The Exchange to discuss measures the Federal Reserve and Treasury Department can take to provide relief from the economic disruptions caused by the COVID-19 crisis.

To explore the major priorities for—and obstacles to—developing the public equity market in Nepal, the Nepal Stock Exchange (NEPSE) partnered with the Milken Institute to organize a strategic planning roundtable in Kathmandu on May 31, 2019...