An article by The Economist on the 'African Debt Database', a project led by the Kiel Institute for the World Economy in which Niccolo Rescia (amU, AMSE) took part.
Since 2018, the Trump administration has been waging a trade war through successive hikes in customs duties. Has this policy protected the American economy? Researchers argue that, by fuelling uncertainty, it may in fact be producing the opposite effect.