No Need for US Waiver to Build Gas Pipeline With Iran, Pakistan Says
March 24th, 2024
Via VOA News, a report that Pakistan does not believe it needs a U.S. waiver to build a gas pipeline with Iran: Pakistan said Thursday that it does not need a waiver from U.S. sanctions to build its portion of a pipeline to import natural gas from Iran. “It is a segment of the pipeline […]
Read more »Paraguay’s Economic Development Plan
March 24th, 2024
Via Merco Press, an article on Paraguay’s economic plans: President Santiago Peña highlighted Paraguay’s productive model and spoke about his country’s future in terms of economic and financial development in the panel “Spotlight on Latin America” sponsored by the Financial Times, it was reported Monday in Asunción. The head of state also pointed out that […]
Read more »Angola & Nigeria: State-Led Petroleum Sector Development
March 23rd, 2024
Via Phenomenal World, a report on state-led petroleum sector development in Angola and Nigeria: Oil and gas producers in Africa, like developing countries across the globe, face a particular problem in pursuing state-led development. The resource curse, and specifically the phenomenon of “Dutch disease,” in which an exporting industry brings in foreign capital and causes the […]
Read more »Why Cost of Chocolate Will Keep Rising
March 23rd, 2024
Courtesy of The Financial Times, a look at how speculation, climate change and under-investment are combining to push up the price of the confection: With Easter less than a month away, sweet-toothed consumers in Europe and North America are beginning to turn their thoughts towards chocolate. In the UK alone, tens of millions of milk […]
Read more »Al Qaeda Inc. Is Back—and Thriving—in Afghanistan
March 23rd, 2024
Courtesy of Foreign Policy, an article on how architects of 9/11 are profiting from gold and gem mines in the Taliban-led country: Al Qaeda is back to its old tricks in Afghanistan. Much as it did before masterminding the 9/11 attacks, the terrorist group is running militant training camps; sharing the profits of the Taliban’s […]
Read more »Asia’s Population Patterns by Density
March 23rd, 2024
Via Visual Capitalist, an interesting graphical look at Asia’s population patterns by density: Nearly 60% of the world’s 8 billion population lives in Asia: a vast continent sprawling over 44 million km², home to sprawling megacities, high-altitude deserts, the world’s biggest plateau, and impenetrable rainforests. We visualize Asia’s population patterns using data from WorldPop—a research group based out of […]
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