Emerging Markets
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...
India Is Building a Third Way for BRICS’ Digital Economy
The 2026 BRICS Summit in New Delhi may be remembered for more than debates over de-dollarization, geopolitical rivalry, and the growing weight of the...
Is China Turning Economic Influence in Africa into Strategic Power?
China can leverage its membership in the BRICS group and its direct investments in Africa as complementary tools to build growing economic influence that...
Assessing Rwanda-Russian Economic Partnership
Decades after the Soviet collapse, Russia and Rwanda share an excellent, longstanding, and growing multifaceted relationship, rooted in mutually beneficial cooperation, while sustaining ambition...
Beyond Expansion: Can BRICS Convert Economic Weight into Collective Power?
Authors: Janvi Singhi and Kanav Sharma*
BRICS is moving into a more meaningful phase in its evolution. Its larger membership, considerable resources, population, and markets...
China and Egypt’s African Ambitions: How VICMED Could Advance the Belt and Road
The Chinese perspective intersects with and complements the vision of Egyptian President Abdel Fattah El-Sisi to establish a waterway linking the Mediterranean Sea to...