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Sapienta Economics Ltd is based in the Republic of Cyprus. The company produces analysis and research on the economies of south-eastern Europe and the eastern Mediterranean for international and local clients.

We are committed to independent analysis and have no ties to any government or political party, either in Cyprus or abroad.

The company’s director, Fiona Mullen, has been providing economic analysis and research to an international audience for over 15 years. Her knowledge of the Cyprus economy is unrivalled. She has been the economic advisor to the UN in the Cyprus peace negotiations since the preparatory phase began in April 2008 and she served as a UN staff member (P4) from March 2009 to April 2010. She is a former Senior Europe Analyst at the Economist Intelligence Unit in London, where she produced political and economic analysis and forecasts on eastern and western Europe. She was the Director of the flagship Economist Intelligence Unit Country Reports until late 2001. She was the Senior Analyst from 2002 until 2006 at the Financial Mirror, Cyprus’ only financial newspaper. She has also produced in-depth economic analysis on a wide range of Middle Eastern countries.

In 2009 Fiona Mullen was awarded the Stelios Award for Business Cooperation in Cyprus together with her Greek Cypriot and Turkish Cypriot associates, Praxoula Antoniadou Kyriacou and Ozlem Oguz. The team is known as "The Three Ladies".

http://www.stelios.com/entrepreneurship/award-for-business-co-operation-in-cyprus.html

Key clients and partners

The Economist Intelligence Unit www.eiu.com www.economist.com
PRIO Cyprus Centre www.prio.no/Cyprus
International Peace Research Institute, Oslo (PRIO) www.prio.no
The United Nations, www.uncyprustalks.org
S. Platis Economic Research www.mapsplatis.com
Financial Mirror www.financialmirror.com
Cyprus Weekly www.cyprusweekly.com.cy
And other private clients

Press articles

Sapienta Economics has been cited in the Financial Times, Dow Jones and ThomsonReuters among others. Fiona Mullen has written regularly on economic matters in the Cypriot press and in October 2008 was invited to write a guest column in the Financial Times. For a text-only version of the article right-click here. For the (subscription-only) article on FT.com click here.

Publications

Cyprus: An Island in Europe, by James Ker-Lindsay, Hubert Faustmann and Fiona Mullen eds), I.B. Tauris, May 2011
The day after III: The Cyprus dividend for Turkey and Greece, by Ozlem Oguz-Cilsal, Praxoula Antoniadou-Kyriacou and Fiona Mullen, PRIO Cyprus Centre, July 2010. To download, right-click here.
'Cyprus in the Global Financial Crisis', by Fiona Mullen and Mustafa Besim, South European Society and Politics, Vol 14, No. 1, March 2009. To purchase from the publisher, click here.
The day after II: Reconstructing a reunited Cyprus, by Praxoula Antoniadou-Kyriacou, Ozlem Oguz and Fiona Mullen, PRIO Cyprus Centre, January 2009. To download, right-click here.
Intra-island trade in Cyprus: Obstacles, oppositions and psychological barriers, by Mete Hatay, Fiona Mullen and Julia Kalimeri, PRIO Cyprus Centre, December 2008. To download, right-click here.
The day after: Commercial opportunities following a solution to the Cyprus problem, by Fiona Mullen, Praxoula Antoniadou-Kyriacou and Ozlem Oguz, PRIO Cyprus Centre, January 2008. To download the English version, right-click here, Greek version right-click here, Turkish version right-click here.
Economic Perspectives in Cyprus: the Path Towards Reunification by Fiona Mullen (ed), PRIO Cyprus Centre 2007. To download right-click here.
The Property Regime in a Cyprus Settlement, By Stelios Platis, Stelios Orphanides and Fiona Mullen, PRIO Cyprus Centre, 2006. To download, right-click here.
Doing Business with the Republic of Cyprus (Economy chapter), Kogan Page 2004
Middle East and North Africa 2009 and earlier years (author of Cyprus economy chapters), Routledge 2008

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Industrial new orders up by 1.9% in euro area
In December 2011 compared with November 2011, the euro area (EA17) industrial new orders index rose by 1.9%, after a fall of 1.1% in November. In the EU27 new orders increased by 1.3% in December 2011, after a decrease of 1.2% in November. Excluding ships, railway & aerospace equipment, for which changes tend to be more volatile, industrial new orders gained 2.5% in the euro area and 2.6% in the EU27. read more
Construction output up by 0.3% in euro area
In the construction sector, seasonally adjusted production rose by 0.3% in the euro area (EA17) and fell by 0.4% in the EU27 in December 2011, compared with the previous month. In November, production increased by 0.2% and 0.6% respectively. read more
Euro area and EU27 GDP down by 0.3%
GDP fell by 0.3% in both the euro area (EA17) and the EU27 during the fourth quarter of 2011, compared with the previous quarter, according to flash estimates published by Eurostat, the statistical office of the European Union. In the third quarter of 2011, growth rates were +0.1% and +0.3% respectively. read more
Euro area external trade deficit 7.7 bn euro
The first estimate for the euro area (EA17) trade in goods balance with the rest of the world in December 2011 gave a 9.7 bn euro surplus, compared with -1.7 bn in December 2010. The November 2011 balance was +6.3 bn, compared with -2.3 bn in November 2010. In December 2011 compared with November 2011, seasonally adjusted exports rose by 0.1% while imports fell by 0.9%. read more
Eurostat indicators to support the detection of macroeconomic imbalances
Eurostat, the statistical office of the European Union, publishes for the first time today the indicators of the Macroeconomic Imbalance Procedure (MIP) Scoreboard. The Scoreboard indicators provide the statistical support to the Commission's Alert Mechanism Report. The headline indicators are available on a dedicated section of the Eurostat website, which will be regularly updated as the underlying data become available. For Walter Radermacher, Director General of Eurostat, "This is a confirmation of Eurostat's role as the leading provider of high quality European statistics. For the Commission, it is very important that the statistical information used in the Alert Mechanism is compiled according to the principles of the European Statistics Code of Practice of the European Statistical System. The Code ensures the relevance, comparability and quality of the data, produced by independent statistical institutions." read more

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Industrial new orders up by 1.9% in euro area

Construction output up by 0.3% in euro area

Euro area and EU27 GDP down by 0.3%

Euro area external trade deficit 7.7 bn euro

Eurostat indicators to support the detection of macroeconomic imbalances