The Dry Port Dilemma: Can a Border Hub Unlock $30 Billion in Trade?

For countries heavily reliant on international commerce, a border is far more than a line on a map—it acts as a direct tollbooth on the entire economy. Malaysia and Thailand are prime examples of this reality. According to World Bank data, trade openness is worth roughly 137 percent of GDP in both nations, placing them…

ByEditorial Team15 Luglio 20260Comments

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The Saudi Funding Envelope: Terms of Trade, Giga-Project Rescoping, and the Discipline of the War Windfall

Is the massive restructuring of Saudi Arabia's ambitious Vision 2030 giga-projects a sign of a binding fiscal constraint, or is it evidence of strategic learning and intelligent reallocation? For global portfolio managers, macro strategists, and development finance allocators, this is the central question of the Saudi macro position. Our latest research study explores this exact…

ByEditorial Team8 Luglio 20260Comments

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The Cost of Capital: The New Frontier in Climate Advocacy

For decades, environmental advocacy was a battle fought on the ground—at the fence line of construction sites and along the pathways of planned infrastructure. But when the controversial East African Crude Oil Pipeline (EACOP) was pursued despite widespread local displacement and international resolutions, a fundamental shift occurred. Activists realized they couldn’t stop the pipeline at…

ByEditorial Team25 Giugno 20260Comments

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Salalah to Lagos in 21 Days: What the Oman Grain Hub Means for Africa’s Economic Future

Is a new trade architecture quietly reshaping how Africa feeds itself—and how its debt is priced? Over a thousand years ago, Oman sat at the center of the Indian Ocean monsoon trading system—a vast, multi-currency commercial network linking East Africa, southern Arabia, western India, and Southeast Asia. No single empire controlled it. No single currency dominated it. It…

ByEditorial Team20 Giugno 20260Comments

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Beyond the Headlines: How Institutional Resilience Shaped Chile’s Economic Reality

In an era where sudden political shifts often trigger immediate market panic, how do certain nations maintain steady economic momentum? For policymakers, investors, and observers of the Global South, understanding the gap between political noise and economic reality is more critical than ever. Our latest research report dives deep into Chile’s remarkable economic trajectory, exploring…

ByEditorial Team15 Giugno 20260Comments

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The 2026 Hormuz Chokepoint: Simulating the Macroeconomic Shockwave

Global supply chains are currently navigating a period of unprecedented fragility. With container traffic through the Red Sea and Bab-el-Mandeb strait already plummeting by 75% due to ongoing regional conflicts, the systemic pressure on alternative maritime and overland corridors has reached historic highs. But what happens if the world’s most critical energy artery faces a…

ByEditorial Team7 Giugno 20260Comments

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Uzbekistan and the New Development Bank: what does accession really change?

Uzbekistan’s accession to the BRICS New Development Bank is more than a diplomatic headline. It raises a deeper question for anyone interested in development, sovereignty, and economic transformation: does NDB membership give Uzbekistan real financing autonomy, or does it simply repackage familiar de-risking models under a new flag? Our new advocacy brief explores that…

Byadmin6 Giugno 20260Comments

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Sanctions and Formal-Sector Capability Loss in Iran

The Formal-Sector Cost of Iran Sanctions is a research brief showing that repeated sanctions shocks have measurably reduced capability formation in Iran’s formal manufacturing sector, while parts of the parastatal economy appear to have absorbed much of the substitution. The study also finds a partial post-2024 currency shift in trade settlement, but argues that this does…

Byadmin6 Giugno 20260Comments

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Beyond SWIFT: Unpacking the Technological Blueprint of BRICS Pay

For decades, the global economy has operated on a financial infrastructure that was built for a different era. Today, as geopolitical fractures deepen, the vulnerabilities of relying on a single, Western-led payment messaging system have become impossible to ignore. When access to the global financial system is used as a geopolitical lever, the need for…

ByEditorial Team27 Dicembre 20250Comments

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