Reading Time: 3 minutesPolitics and public administration are rarely far from the headlines. From the ins and outs of policy development to the cut and thrust of the daily spin cycle, the key participants play out a seemingly never-ending debate that echoes from government offices to legislatures to the media – print, broadcast …
Reading Time: 3 minutesHumans join forces to accomplish shared goals. Or as the saying goes, “If you want to go fast, go alone. If you want to go far, go together.” States are in essence just that, States are in essence just that, organisations that allow us to pool our resources to achieve …
Reading Time: 3 minutesOK, I know that not everyone has studied economics, so let’s start with a definition. Every country has a national quota, which is the ratio of its total government spending relative to its gross domestic product (GDP). The national quota indicates how much macroeconomic output is used by the public …
Reading Time: 3 minutesDid you know that 15 EU member states and, in particular, all major EU economies fail to meet their own debt targets? While one might have believed that the debt situation would ease after the outbreak of the 2008 financial crisis, and that some rebalancing would ensue, unfortunately the opposite …
