Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan: The Poorest Countries in Central Asia
November 15th, 2022
Via Eurasia Review, commentary on Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan and how they are faring in the geopolitical void engulfing Central Asia at present: Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan are probably the most dependent on Russia of all the Central Asian states. Some 1.1 million migrant laborers from Kyrgyzstan and 1.6 million from Tajikistan worked abroad in 2021, most in Russia. According to […]
Read more »Indonesia: Poised For A Boom?
November 15th, 2022
Courtesy of The Economist, an article on Indonesia’s promising economic future: Indonesians are used to near-anonymity on the world stage. John Riady, a scion of Indonesian business, once joked that his country was the planet’s biggest invisible object. But under the bonnets of new electric vehicles (evs) and on apps used by hundreds of millions of customers, […]
Read more »China Circles El Salvador’s Economy As Country Edges Toward Crypto Plunge
November 15th, 2022
Via The Guardian, a report on how El Salvador’s bet on bitcoin and its tumbling value has put the Central American country in a financially precarious spot that China is opportunistically capitalizing on: As crypto-Twitter cascaded with apocalyptic memes about the bankruptcy of cryptocurrency exchange FTX and the sharp drop in the bitcoin price, one account has remained […]
Read more »Gabon Targets a Huge Payday With Carbon Credits
November 14th, 2022
Via WSJ, an article on Gabon’s plans to offer the largest-ever issuance of offsets, seeking a windfall for preserving its vast forests: The African nation of Gabon, one of the most densely forested on earth, is launching the world’s biggest sale of carbon-offset credits. The plan could net the country billions of dollars and upend the fast-growing […]
Read more »EU Signs ‘Strategic Partnership’ with Kazakhstan on Green Hydrogen
November 14th, 2022
Via Euractiv, a report on a recent EU ‘strategic partnership’ with Kazakhstan on green hydrogen, raw materials: As UN climate talks kicked off in the Egyptian resort city of Sharm El-Sheikh, the European Union is moving forward to secure partnerships with developing countries on hydrogen and clean technologies, starting with Kazakhstan. In its REPowerEU plan presented in May, […]
Read more »Iran: An Emerging Regional Transit Hub?
November 14th, 2022
Via Geopolitics In South Asia and MENA, commentary on Iran’s role as a regional transit hub For thousands of years, Iran has been an important route for the transit of foreign goods due to its geopolitical position. The country played a significant role in transporting commodities from west to east as one of the main […]
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