China is succumbing to a lending slowdown even as signs emerge of better market liquidity, a “credit paradox” that BNP Paribas Asset Management believes masks an improvement in confidence and ...

Why has capitalism created broad-based wealth in the West and Asia, but not in Africa?

Africa’s paradox is multifaceted: resource-rich yet fiscally distressed, attracting financial inflows but suffering from a ...

A UN report reveals that renewable energy capacity in the region tripled between 2013 and 2023, led by China, India, Vietnam, ...

Despite the steepest US tariffs in decades, China is on course for a record $1.2 trillion trade surplus as its exporters ...

Nationalism is another form of re-collectivisation. The “Guochao” (national trend) movement celebrates Chinese brands and ...

Multinational corporations (MNCs) in China now navigate a landscape where their strategic value is rising, even as the political and regulatory boundaries around their participation are being ...

Yet the cost of that rise — human, cultural and moral — has too often been erased or dismissed as “necessary.” The truth is that it was not. Many of the disasters that scarred China were not acts of ...

In the first half of 2025, Taiwan became the world’s largest importer of Russian naphtha, a key fossil fuel derivative used ...

The World Bank’s Reboot Development report has belatedly confirmed what scientists have warned for decades: humanity is ...

Every society aspires. But in India, aspiration has long been framed through the prism of exit. For many in the middle class, ...