Global investment rises 6% to $1.6 trillion in 2025, but development gains remain uneven
Global investment is rising again. But it’s becoming more concentrated, more selective and less accessible to many developing countries. Read More here
Tag: Economy
World has to learn to live through closures
Why did Taiwan spend part of this month deliberately slowing down its own mobile internet? The civil defence exercises that opened in early August are testing what the island’s communications — reliant on undersea cables — would feel like under blockade, with bandwidth throttled on purpose to see how citizens would talk to one another […]
China says key plenum will be held in October
Top leadership body will gather in Beijing, about a month after Xi Jinping is expected to travel to the United States. Read More Here
The Economic War on Iran Is—and Isn’t—Working
Devastating costs have been imposed on the Iranian economy—to unclear strategic ends. Read More Here
The Middle Power Moment
India and other midsize powers can shape the global order through plurilateral coalitions. Read More Here
Trump’s Un-American Capitalism
The current US administration’s openly corrupt style of crony capitalism is the antithesis of the institutional foundation on which the US economy was built. Read More Here
Xi Positions China’s Ruling Party as Global Force for Progress
Xi Jinping makes a case for China’s ruling party as a force for global progress and prosperity, signalling his ambition for the country to lead global affairs.
Global Economy Endures War Shock—So Far
An overall resilient world economy masks significant differences among countries and regions. Energy importers and countries with limited policy space are most vulnerable. Read More Here
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