Economic architecture
THE US is having second thoughts about the Washington Consensus it had evolved in the 1990s. At that time, the Cold War with the Soviet Union had just ended, and…
Coronavirus, falling oil hit Putin hopes for economic revival
Russian President Vladimir Putin insists the economy can weather the coronavirus storm and low oil prices but the two-pronged crisis is a huge challenge to his promises to reduce poverty…
Virus hits shipping, spreading global economic strain
Sea freight transport, the lifeblood of trade and a bellwether of the global economy, has been blown off course by the new coronavirus, sparking general alarm. As analysts pore over…
Withering geoeconomics
IT was almost exactly three years ago that a paper was published by Moeed Yusuf and his co-author Rabia Akhtar arguing in favour of a pivot away from geopolitics towards geoeconomics as…
Hit by Trump tariffs, rest of world races to forge new trade alliances
US President Donald Trump’s import tariffs have breathed life into dormant free trade talks across the globe and driven alliances at an unrivalled pace between partners seeking to offset lost…
Shifting security architecture
In an increasingly complex bipolar world floating in a sea of multipolarity, anarchy and disorder make middle powers and small nations suspicious, of global powers and their regional surrogates. American…
Global finance: fault line in architecture
Markets are still pricing calm, but could they be ignoring a storm. The attempt to fire Fed Governor Lisa Cook has become more than just another Trumpian tantrum. It signals…
India’s ‘strong’ economic growth fails to impress equity investors
India’s world-beating economic growth is failing to translate into gains for equity markets as weakening pricing power and US tariffs weigh on corporate earnings, turning foreign investors away. Gross domestic…
‘Economic Resilience Act’—I
‘A resilient society is able to react to and respond after a shock. Resilience even opens new doors to enhanced growth and sustainability. …The concept of resilience can also be…
Eurasia’s evolving architecture
The recently concluded Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO) Summit in Tianjin has once again underlined how global politics is moving steadily away from traditional Euro-Atlantic frameworks towards Eurasian-led mechanisms of cooperation,…
