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This writer recently came across an article in which China’s development cooperation with countries such as Sri Lanka and ...
Kenya has kicked off the process of issuing its first Panda bond as it seeks to plug financing gaps ahead of extending its ...
Why not No. 1?
The IMF projection of India’s nominal GDP for 2025-26 of $4,187.017 billion, against Japan’s $4,186.431 billion, ($586 ...
The “but” is now becoming a standard feature of the India Story.
For emerging markets (EMs), additional tariffs amount to 10%. In our central scenario, they will also be maintained at this level in 2025 (the “reciprocal” measures mentioned by Trump on April 2 would ...
Pakistan’s recent decision to increase its defence budget by 17% for the fiscal year 2025–2026 is as revealing as it is alarming. At a time when the country faces an economic abyss, burdened by ...
Pakistan has made herself useful to China and the US and rivalry between Beijing and Washington actually has worked in Pakistan's favor in some ways, says Menon ...
Gita Gopinath, First Deputy Managing Director of the International Monetary Fund, spoke at a conference in Sri Lanka's ...
US-China talks concluded this week with a 'handshake agreement', a US appeals court permitted Trump's tariffs to continue ...
Sri Lanka’s official foreign reserves have been overstated by approximately USD 1.4 billion due to the inclusion of a currency swap from China that does not meet international standards, a new report ...
Donald Trump is not a one-world-order guy. And he’s definitely not a Globalist. He rightly believes that every decision in ...
The World Bank lowered its 2025 global growth forecast to 2.3 per cent, down from 2.7 per cent previously expected.