Shocks such as COVID-19 and the Russian invasion of Ukraine command not only our attention but also has a deep influence of reshaping the world from…
Covid-19, a virus that has, as it journeyed around the world, killed over five million people and upended the workings of our lives. Not so soon…
Climate Change and Covid-19 is the Result of a Last decade for Emerging Markets – BRICS is in the need of an Overhaul and Multinational Development Banks (MDBs) Need Urgently to Press the Recovery Button by Softening Their Credit Ratings
September 2021The economic crisis induced by the Covid-19 pandemic has resulted in the most serious setback to development progress and poverty alleviation in recent memory. There is…
Although mass vaccination campaigns are picking up speed in the West, the end of the Covid-19 pandemic still is not even in sight. For that, the…
Last year Our World has Forever Changed – Vaccination Must Change This Year
February 2021Some years are barely mentioned in history books; others get their own chapters. The last year certainly feels like the latter, and there is no doubt…
The pandemic dealt a severe blow to the economies of the Gulf due to the collapse of the local tourist industry and all the associated hospitality,…
Happy New Year – The Resolution is Climate Change and beating Covid-19
January 2021Last years US election is over. And the big winners were the coronavirus and, quite possibly, catastrophic climate change. OK, democracy also finally one, at least…
In my opinion it is hard to find two as unlikely bedfellows as the US’s Joe Biden and the UK’s Boris Johnson, but the two leaders…
European Recovery Political Concerns disrupt Economic Imperatives
October 2020Europe was supposedly done with political histrionics. In the face of pandemic, a continent not known for common purpose had put aside long-festering national suspicions to…
To me, it is obvious – the Western World is blind towards Beijing!
October 2020The Trump administration banned the popular short-video app TikTok and WeChat in the United States, because their parent companies, ByteDance and Tencent, are both Chinese. Washington…