Self-sustainability

In this week's collection of Premium stories, we look at why some groups are resilient to pressure, as well as how some new institutions and not so new political leaders are hitting the rocks.

Experts say successive governments have not done enough to improve the resilience of the Croatian economy to the effects of a slowdown in Europe and beyond.

Turkish firms and Syrian jobseekers on July 31 gathered to talk business as part of a project kicked off by the European Union and the United Nations Development Program (UNDP). The project aims to strengthen the economic and social resilience of Turkish and Syrian people.

As we shuffle toward elections in the familiar fog of scandals, insults, threats and lies, the picture of the real economy ought to wake politicians and citizens to the magnitude of the country's problems. Without investments, without substantial reforms, without solving chronic problems, the economy will not escape the quagmire. We may even slip back into recession.