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Will oil remain an essential source of energy in the coming decades? What supply and demand scenarios are anticipated given the targets to decarbonise the economy?

Through the BRI, China has sought to establish alliances and improve regional connectivity through infrastructure investments and economic integration in the Eurasian continent, as well as in Africa and Latin America.

Having launched the most intense monetary tightening cycle of recent decades, it appears that the central banks are on track to solve the unexpected upturn in inflation which the international economy has had to cope with since the first half of 2021.

Does the rebound in imports in Spain respond to greater dynamism in domestic demand? Or does it reflect an increase in the import content of the Spanish economy?

The international economy has entered the new year with vital signs that reflect the barrage of negative shocks accumulated since the beginning of 2020, but with signs of improvement in the macroeconomic imbalances.

It does not look like we are on the cusp of a cycle of high GDP and job growth. But it also does not appear that the economy is going to enter a deep or prolonged recession.

In recent quarters, the global economy has shown remarkable resilience and we estimate that it could have grown by around 3.0% in 2023. With this starting point, we explain the latest revision to our global economic forecast scenario and the outlook for monetary policy.

This first article in the Dossier “Solidarity in Spain: snapshot of a committed society” examines the social attitudes and philanthropic behaviour of the Spanish population through the representative survey commissioned by the Social Observatory of the ”la Caixa” Foundation in 2024.

After examining how philanthropy is perceived in Spain, and the main charitable causes that Spaniards support, in this third article of the Dossier "Solidarity in Spain: snapshot of a committed society" we address the socio-demographic characteristics of donors who collaborate financially with non-profit entities.

Five months after the last update to our macroeconomic forecast scenario, we have incorporated newly available information and re-examined the main factors dominating the outlook for Spain’s economy.

The new CaixaBank Research Dossier, dedicated to «An analysis of European productivity», aims to explore the recent dynamics in the EU’s productivity, focusing on its territorial dispersion and the differentiating factors between the best and worst performing regions. In this first article, we provide some context by outlining the main trends.

In the second article of the Dossier «An analysis of European productivity», we review a broad set of variables covering institutional, geographical and technological aspects, as well as others linked to the economy’s productive fabric, in order to distinguish the different groups of European regions according to their productivity level.