Economy
Eastern Balkans Economic update: Bulgaria’s and Greece’s new data for 2020
The pandemic-induced crisis has hit it the world in highly unequal manners both across borders and within countries. Most economies slid in a recession...
EAEU–Iran Trade and Its Prospects
Negotiations on a full-scale free trade agreement between Iran and the Eurasian Economic Union (EAEU) are planned for the second half of 2021. The...
Impact of Foreign Direct Investment on Emerging Economy
Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) is an investment from a party in a particular country to a business in another country with the aim of...
Vietnam’s economic prospects under the new leadership
Vietnam has witnessed a transition to new leadership with new President Nguyen Xuan Phuc, Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh and Chairman of National Assembly...
UNDP’s diagnosis of Pakistan’s economic malaise and contributory factors
The United Nations’ Pakistan’s National Human Development Report 2020 (Power, People and Policy) makes startling revelations about Pakistan’s polity and society. It defines “power”...
New report highlights COVID-19 impact on African trade finance
African Export-Import Bank (Afreximbank), in collaboration with the United Nations Economic Commission for Africa (ECA), the African Development Bank (AfDB) and Making Finance Work...
Russia’s ‘Growth-Stability’ Dichotomy
Russian economic growth has underperformed the global average almost every year since the 2008-09 financial crisis. But it’s far from a homogenous pattern: in...
Virtual-Reality Leaderships Await Digital-Guillotines
When national leadership starts acting more as if Virtual-Reality based illusionary leadership games, it calls immediate testing to ensure digital future of the virtualized...
Suez Canal Shutdown revealed the importance of the Middle Corridor
On March 23 of 2021, a container ship called the “Ever Given” ran aground in Suez Canal, one of the most important waterways in...
Connectivity now. Boosting flows of people, information, energy, goods and services
On April 8, St Petersburg hosted the 12th Northern Dimension Forum. This forum, established in 2007, is a major annual corporate business event for...