The EIU’s exclusive report shows the opportunities and challenges for the regions supply chains

This next article in our covid-19 series provides an overview of vaccine development. We focus on the vaccine produced by the University of Oxford, in collaboration with AstraZeneca, the first vaccine to reach large clinical trials.

The EIU nowcast for the US economy for Q3 2020 improved to 3.80% (quarter-on-quarter) as of last week, compared with 3.61% during the week ending 28th August.

On September 8th two Australian journalists living in China fled that country to return to their homeland. The journalists— Bill Birtles of the Australian Broadcasting Corporation and Mike Smith of the Australian Financial Review—left China with assistance from the Australian government.

The covid-19 pandemic has highlighted the need for improved national and local pandemic response – no country will emerge from this pandemic without some hard lessons to learn. As part of our covid-19 series, this article looks at potential learnings based on a need to improve capacity and capability.

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In The Economist Intelligence Unit’s (The EIU) latest global outlook video, Agathe Demarais, Tom Rafferty, and Nick Marro, discuss our forecasts for Cross-Strait relations between Taiwan and China, and other key geopolitical and economic issues to keep an eye on in the Asia-Pacific region.

Foreign direct investment (FDI) inflows in the GCC increased by 12.4% to US$27.7bn in 2020, led by strong increases in inflows into Saudi Arabia, Oman and the UAE, according to the UN’s annual World Investment Report (WIR), released on June 21st.

Last month, FocusEconomics awarded The Economist Intelligence Unit (The EIU) as the best economic forecaster in 2020 and most consistent forecaster over the last three years.

Over the past six months, The Economist Intelligence Unit (EIU) has collected data and information on the 5G environment in the top 60 telecoms markets worldwide, in order to score them on six key metrics: the business environment, spectrum availability, the current level of 5G deployment, 5G network speed, progress on industry trials of 5G and the robustness of 5G policy.