China’s new world order: looking for clues from Xi’s recent meetings with foreign leaders
Apr 22, 2024 03:31 am UTC| Insights & Views Economy
There is broad consensus that Chinese foreign policy has become more assertive and more centralised in the decade since Xi Jinping has ascended to the top of Chinas leadership. This has also meant that Chinese foreign...
How India’s economy has fared under ten years of Narendra Modi
Apr 19, 2024 06:23 am UTC| Insights & Views Economy
More than 960 million Indians will head to the polls in the worlds biggest election between April 19 and early June. The ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), which is led by Prime Minister Narendra Modi, is seeking a third...
Will global oil supply be at risk if Iran and Israel pull the Middle East into war?
Apr 18, 2024 06:28 am UTC| Insights & Views Economy
Tensions in the Middle East have escalated following Irans weekend missile and drone attacks on Israel, heightening concerns of a wider conflict. As with the Russian invasion of Ukraine, further conflict has the...
EU enlargement: What does the future hold?
Apr 18, 2024 06:21 am UTC| Insights & Views Economy
To widen or to deepen. This has been one of the longstanding dilemmas throughout European Union (EU) history, and a perennial sticking point in the unending process of European integration. In its time, the UK...
‘They don’t have enough’ – schools in England are running food banks for families
Apr 18, 2024 06:21 am UTC| Insights & Views Economy
The peak of the cost-of-living crisis may have passed, but millions of families are struggling to buy enough food to feed their children. Experiencing food insecurity can be deeply damaging for children and negatively...
The yen plunges to 34-year low despite interest rate hike
Apr 17, 2024 09:46 am UTC| Insights & Views Economy Central Banks
The Bank of Japan (BoJ) raised interest rates for the first time in 17 years on March 19, bringing an era of negative interest rates to an end. The key rate was hiked from 0.1% to a band from zero to 0.1% a token effort...
The idea that US interest rates will stay higher for longer is probably wrong
Apr 15, 2024 10:39 am UTC| Economy
The 0.4% rise in US consumer prices in March didnt look like headline news. It was the same as the February increase, and the year-on-year rise of 3.5% is still sharply down from 5% a year ago. All the same, this modest...
South Africa’s plan to move away from coal: 8 steps to make it succeed
Germany lowers voting age to 16 for the European elections
IceCube researchers detect a rare type of energetic neutrino sent from powerful astronomical objects