Emerging issues in the global economies
Lower growth expectations: As is evident the EU and the US are facing difficulties in order to increase their economic growth, and that is why, the demand for nationalism and protectionism…
Global developments in transfer pricing issues
Important developments have taken place in the field of Transfer Pricing World over. The significant developments have taken place in the United States and OECD: In the United State the…
Shifting global dynamics
THE summit of the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation took place against the backdrop of significant geopolitical upheaval. This has been driven largely by President Donald Trump’s disruptive policies, which have upended…
A vanishing global order
The international order, as we knew it, may be in its death throes, but the disorder we see around is not the birth pangs of a new international order. There…
Emerging market debt sale surge defies global turmoil amid signs of de-dollarisation
Emerging market debt sales boomed in the first half of the year, defying tariff tantrums, missile attacks and gyrating oil prices, on track for another year of records - and…
Global tensions rattle COP30 build-up but ‘failure not an option’
This year’s UN COP30 summit in Brazil was hotly-anticipated as a pivotal moment for the planet, as the world fast approaches a key global warming threshold. But the hosts are…
Who runs the Global South?
Global bureaucracies, shrinking sovereignty and the future of the Global South: As the Bretton Woods system celebrates its 80th anniversary, the architecture of international development stands bloated and overstretched. Institutions…
Policy issues in the EFF programme — III
Covid-19 pandemic, and then the catastrophic floods in 2022, both of which had significant climate change causality – towards which Pakistan has contributed very little in terms of global carbon…
Policy issues in the EFF programme – II
In addition, lack of adequate regulatory capacity means that it is very likely, as has been the case in real markets, for example, agriculture, left to market forces without adequate…
US seeks to weaken global development finance efforts
The United States is seeking to weaken a global deal aimed at helping developing countries struggling with the impacts of climate change and other issues, an internal United Nations document…
