Economy
Pandemic Economies Unmasked
Pandemic economies can no longer claim wild victories; mostly their shiny cities are only electrocuted cement structures of corporate vagueness, their booming stock markets...
The Chinese debt issue
Despite the "phase one" trade agreement signed between the United States and China in January 2020, the coronavirus issue has greatly distorted the Chinese...
Digital Yuan will dent the Dollar
Authors: Dr. Faisal Ahmed and Hardik Gupta*
The global financial architecture has taken a leap with China testing its digital currency for the first time...
Is it time to review China’s ‘developing country’ status at the WTO, considering its economic might?
US president Donald Trump criticised China for engaging in unfair trade practices by taking advantage of its ‘developing country’ status in World Trade Organisation....
The construction sector can help lead the economic recovery – Here’s how
The construction sector may hold the key to kick-starting economies ravaged by the fallout from the COVID-19 pandemic.
Past crises have shown that, although households...
COVID-19 shows why we need multilateralism more than ever
It is the nature of crises to expose new faults in a system or widen existing ones. The COVID-19 pandemic is no exception to...
China continues to cut back Latin America loans
For the fourth consecutive year, China’s two main banks tasked with financing overseas development have reduced loans to Latin America, according to new research from...
Faced with a crisis, airlines seek delay on climate measures
Aviation is one of the earliest and most visible economic losers of restrictions introduced to stop the spread of Covid-19, with 95% of passenger...
From “Information” Society to “Self-Sufficient’ Society
We have not seen the World War III yet but after this pandemic, it is not difficult to make reliable projections about what would...
The future of ‘office work” “office workers” and “offices themselves”
The cold facts and warm realities; in next few hundred daysover 50% of office work, office workers and offices themselves will all disappear permanently....