Sanctions go, but Iran must wait for economic recovery
Iranian trade will be boosted by a lifting of nuclear-related sanctions but the country needs billions of dollars of investment, and meaningful economic gains are likely to take many months.…
Banks in UK assess China risks after being stung by Russia sanctions
Big banks in Britain are preparing for any future escalation of Western sanctions on China and have shared their “scenario planning” with the British and US governments, a senior banking…
Economic sabotage?
Ishaq Dar eagerly misses no opportunity to shift the blame for Pakistan’s economic woes, despite the disasters surrounding his stewardship of the country’s beleaguered finances. It was in this spirit…
Top US Treasury official to warn UAE, Turkey over sanctions evasion
The US Treasury Department’s top sanctions official on a trip to Turkey and the Middle East next week will warn countries and businesses that they could lose US market access…
Resetting foreign economic relations : Part – III
Gulf States: Pakistan has enjoyed very friendly relations with the Gulf States. The first generation of Emirates rulers were very favourably disposed towards Pakistan as they received a lot of…
Deadly sanctions
When President Joe Biden decided to withdraw the US military from Afghanistan last year, much of America’s news media came down on him like a ton of bricks. Republicans piled…
Geo-economic war
The ongoing geo-economic conflict between Russia and the West is a complicated one, surrounded by nearly as much disinformation and misinformation as the war in Ukraine itself. As such, both…
Unjustified sanctions
As the Cuban government celebrates the July 26 Day of the National Rebellion – a public holiday commemorating the 1953 attack on the Moncada Barracks that is considered the precursor…
Winds of change shift Germany’s economic power northwards
Germany’s wet and windswept north has long lacked the economic appeal of the industrial south but the green transition and an energy crisis sparked by war in Ukraine is shifting…
Economic colonialism
European historians, with their own sense of bias, which on occasions reaches its zenith, to convert into prejudice, (there is no such thing as honest historians, they are all different…
