Chabahar Corridor To Give Central Asia ‘Dependable’ Access to Global Markets
December 9th, 2016
Via the Indian Express, a report on the Amritsar Declaration which saw several countries welcome the pact on jointly building the Silk Road Economic Belt and the 21st Century Maritime Silk Road between China and Afghanistan: Nations taking part in the Heart of Asia (HoA) summit on Sunday acknowledged the “significant” step taken by India, Iran […]
Read more »The New Silk Road Is Not Chinese, It’s International
December 7th, 2016
Via Forbes, an interesting report on the countries involved in building the new Silk Road: When the Soviet Union fell the political and economic landscape of central Eurasia shattered into a melee of disconnected, dysfunctional shards as 14 new countries suddenly emerged in tandem with a pronounced political and economic vacuum. Whereas the Soviets, to varying […]
Read more »Eurasia: The World’s Largest Market Emerges
December 7th, 2016
Courtesy of Forbes, an interesting look at slow integration of Eurasia into one massive market: It is happening subtly but its impact could potentially alter the geopolitical and economic balance of the world. Eurasia, as a contiguous continent stretching from the west of Europe to the eastern coast of China, is slowly being drawn together […]
Read more »Inside Kazakhstan’s Incredible Economic Transformation
December 7th, 2016
Via Forbes, an interesting look at Kazakhstan: Suitably, the headquarters of National Welfare Fund Samruk-Kazyna is located in a pair of opulent gold-mirrored towers that rise up from the heart of Astana, the 19-year-old planned capital of Kazakhstan. Standing out stark and meaningfully from the menagerie of futuristic, contorted, anachronistic, and otherwise mismatching architecture of […]
Read more »MTN + Irancell = Profit Opportunity At Last?
December 6th, 2016
Via Techrasa, some commentary on MTN’s operations in Iran: After becoming the second largest Mobile Network Operator in Iran, MTN now wants to invest in e-commerce in the country. MTN has been working in Iran since 2005 with its 49% share in Irancell, the second largest Mobile Network Operator in the country. Since then with the […]
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