Emerging Markets
Beyond QR Payments: The Politics of Economic Mobility in the Global South
A market vendor in Indonesia can spend an entire day receiving QR payments and still struggle to obtain a bank loan. Her customers and...
Russia-Africa Summit: Can Moscow Turn Political Ties Into Trade, Investment and Economic Growth?
Russia and the entire African continent are currently preparing for the third Russia–Africa Summit, highly considered to increase political dialogue and raise bilateral economic...
After the Bangkok Blueprint, Can ASEAN’s Financial Systems Still Fail Separately?
The Bangkok Blueprint calls for cooperation against cross-border financial fraud. As ASEAN deepens digital integration and expands its role in the global AI economy,...
Chinese Multinational Corporations and Indonesia’s Quest for Economic Sovereignty
Foreign investment is often seen as a driver of economic growth. Yet bringing in money does not automatically give a country economic sovereignty. Indonesia’s...
India-US Trade Talks Stall Again: What’s Holding Up a Deal?
Senior officials from India and the United States have acknowledged that their efforts to finalize a trade agreement have stalled once again. In February,...
Russia’s Sanctions Resilience Has a Ceiling: The Structural Limits Behind Moscow’s Adaptation
Sanctions are designed to impose economic costs that eventually generate political pressure for behavioral change. Yet Russia has absorbed years of unprecedented economic restrictions...
Indonesia Mobilizes 1,800 Tons of Household Gold to Strengthen the Rupiah
Global money is fracturing. As central banks hoard physical gold at record rates, weaponised sanctions, politicised payment networks, and persistent global inflation have exposed...
The Cost of Proof Will Decide the Winners of US–China Decoupling
Every export increasingly carries two products: the good itself and the evidence that makes it admissible. The cost of producing the second may determine...
Rethinking Central Banking: Policy Mix in an Era of Geo-Economic Fragmentation
Today’s global financial system has broken away from its familiar, predictable tracks. Trade barriers, mounting national debt burdens, and hyper-fast capital shifts generate market...
China Tightens Capital Controls the Same Week It Calls the Yuan’s Rise “Irreversible”
TODAY'S NUMBERS: $126.4bn (BRI engagement, H1 2026, a record) · 3.1% (yuan's share of global payments, June 2026) · $50,000 (China's unchanged annual FX...