© Reuters. FILE PHOTO: A worker walks past a pump jack on an oil field owned by Bashneft company near the village of Nikolo-Berezovka, northwest from Ufa, Bashkortostan, Russia, January 28, 2015. REUTERS/Sergei Karpukhin By…
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The seismic aftershocks of Russia’s invasion of its neighbour, Ukraine, on 24 February 2022 continues to reverberate across the globe. As members of the United Nations Security Council, Ghana, Kenya and Gabon have publicly condemned…
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Tighter Fed policy could spell trouble for countries with large dollar debts The dollar debt of Latin American companies has risen much faster than exports over the past decade and now represents a major financial…
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Ukraine’s allies have sent some 17,000 anti-tank weapons into the battlefield, in a bid to help fighters bog down the Russian offensive. The stockpile includes at least 2,000 NLAW (Next Generation Light Antitank Weapon) missiles…
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© Reuters. FILE PHOTO: Vehicles stack up in traffic on their way towards Washington, D.C., via I-395 N in Arlington, Virginia, U.S., November 24, 2021. REUTERS/Leah Millis/File Photo By David Shepardson WASHINGTON (Reuters) -Twenty-two states…
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Uganda’s President Yoweri Museveni, who captured power in 1986, has set himself an ambitious development target. Through the Parish Development Model launched recently, he is seeking to lift the country’s annual GDP growth rate to…
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Big data analysis has long supported major feats in physics and astronomy. But more recently we’ve seen it underpin breakthroughs in the social sciences and humanities. Since the landmark paper Computational Social Science was published…
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© Reuters. FILE PHOTO: American crude oil tanker Kriti Breeze is pictured moving through the Suez Canal in Suez, Egypt February 15, 2022. REUTERS/Mohamed Abd El Ghany By Sabrina Valle, Arathy Somasekhar and Liz Hampton…
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Ukraine is desperate for money. And as the saying goes, freedom is not free. The Ukrainian Ministry of Finance – at this moment trying to fund the nation’s defense against a massive Russian invasion –…
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A working paper published by the Reserve Bank of India on August 10 highlights a host of challenges facing public debt management in the country, including a “narrow investor base”. In Public debt management in…
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