Reports

High inflation and interest rates have knocked consumer confidence

Europe and Middle East – Growing on strong foundations

Sector expert insights into the key issues affecting the industry in the Americas, Asia Pacific and Europe.

Pressure on household incomes is weakening demand, although EV sales are gaining momentum

Civil engineering drives industry, as economic conditions slows growth in residential construction

Global demand for non-essential food products shrinks amid squeeze on household incomes

Global economic outlook, high energy prices and weak demand subdue metals markets

Growth slows amid subdued demand; opportunities will come from green and digital transitions

Sector expert insights into the key issues affecting the industry in the Americas, Asia Pacific and Europe.

MENA’s enormous trade potential is bolstered by a proactive trade shift towards fast-growing regions like Asia. This move is accompanied by a geopolitical reorientation in the same direction.

Laundering the fashion industry's carbon footprint.

Structural trade weaknesses could prevent Latin American & Caribbean from seizing the opportunities of nearshoring, but focusing on the energy transition could be key to unlocking full potential.

The increase in insolvencies continues at an accelerated pace in 2023, followed by a more tempered increase in 2024.

Greece's recovery from the pandemic has been more dynamic as the country makes progress with ambitious reforms

Atradius Pharmaceuticals Sector Experts share their insights and opinions on how AI will impact the industry.

Is the ICT industry adding to, or reducing global warming?

The risk of a doom loop between banks in Italy and the government has decreased

Latin America's resilience is demonstrated by the stronger macroeconomic policy frameworks, improved banking supervision, and higher official reserves.

The global economy is moving away from a stagflation scenario into a scenario with low, but positive growth in 2023 and 2024

Balancing sustainability and efficiency in the agri-food industry

Atradius sector experts share their insights on the key issues affecting pharma industry growth throughout the world

The electricity sector is one of the heaviest CO2 emitting sectors. Achieving net zero emissions in 2050 is going to be a daunting task, as it requires a total makeover

Is the global transport industry on a highway to climate hell?

Regardless of the election result, the next Turkish government faces a complicated set of macroeconomic problems

Is the steel industry on track to meet the world's climate goals?

Fears of a banking crisis have arisen as several midsized US banks have filed for bankruptcy and Credit Suisse ran into trouble

The energy transition offers benefits for fuel importers in declining their import bill. Nevertheless, not all their problems are likely to be resolved.

Sharp insolvency increases in some major economies in 2023, followed in 2024 by a year of relative stabilisation.

The economic recovery in Asia is losing steam, but not for long

Energy markets were shaken by the Russian invasion of Ukraine. Perhaps paradoxically, this is also acting as a catalyst to accelerate underlying trends in the energy mix towards clean energy.

After decades of high economic growth, the Chinese growth engine is slowing down, raising the question of whether the economy could fall in the middle-income trap

High food prices add to Sub-Saharan Africa's economic woes

The global economy is facing an unprecedented mix of challenges which are bringing it to the brink of recession in 2023.

Businesses experience difficulties to source inputs as a result of shocks to global value chains

As government support measures related to the pandemic have ended almost everywhere, we expect insolvencies to rise sharply in some major markets.

Despite rising inflation in the eurozone, we argue it has not yet sprung loose from the ECB target in the medium term

Economic disruptions from the war in Ukraine, lingering lockdown restrictions and multi-decade high inflation have generated a new set of adverse shocks for the global economy

Energy Outlook based on the IEA's World Energy Outlook

The Covid-19 pandemic and the Russia-Ukraine war pose challenges to global value chains.

Reviving Latin America's energy transition requires wind and solar

Russia's invasion of Ukraine throws sand in the wheels of the global economy.

As government support after the pandemic is phased out, insolvencies in most markets are projected to increase in 2022 and 2023.

Chinese economic growth slows down amid several downside risks

While the global economic recovery from the pandemic is bumpy, we identify five bright spots for export opportunities

Economic growth in the oil-rich Gulf region is outpacing that of its energy-importing neighbours. Petrodollars give an extra boost to the economic rebound in MENA.

Many low-income countries face a triple crisis: the Covid-19 pandemic, rising debt levels and climate change. To tackle these challenges at once one of the solutions could be a debt-for-climate swap.

The pandemic is not yet over but economies around the world are learning to live with it.

Brazil's public finances are stuck in a vicious cycle but the comprehensive reforms needed to break out will be difficult.

Asian trade is at a crossroads in the wake of the Covid-19 pandemic and with the US-China trade war ongoing.

As fiscal support is phased out, global corporate insolvencies are forecast to increase by 33% in 2022