How to keep the Philippine economic future on track
By Dan Steinbock
The Philippines is on the right path, if the government can continue to balance between strong growth amid international uncertainty, while pushing...
How China’s Simultaneous Carrots and Sticks Work in Southeast Asia
By Huong Le Thu
China’s applies simultaneously dual tactics of coercion and inducement to assert its position regionally and globally. Demonstrations in Vietnam and the...
Ethiopia – A Case Study in Take-Over by Western Interests
By Peter Koenig
Ethiopia is a landlocked country, bordering on Somalia which is dominating the Horn of Africa. Due to several border conflicts during the past...
The Four Steel Men Behind Trump’s Trade War
By Dan Steinbock
In just a few months, the Trump administration has undermined more than seven decades of U.S. free trade legacies. Who are the...
How US Trade War Is Spreading from Goods to Services
By Dr. Dan Steinbock
Trump tariff wars are entering a new, far more dangerous phase. As the White House is expanding its tariff wars, collateral...
Trading the Global Future
By Dr. Dan Steinbock
PART I: Bad Timing
(This is the first of a three-part series.)
In this commentary, Dr Dan Steinbock argues that Trump's tariff...
Will Trump’s Trade War Precipitate a Currency War?
By Dr. Jack Rasmus
(3rd in a series on Trump Trade policy)
Last week, mid-July, Trump threatened $500 billion in tariffs on China imports, escalating his prior...
The Return of the Feudal World?
By John Hulsman and Boris Liedtke
In today’s post-industrial economy, it is evident that world politics is under radical restructuring. More precisely, as the authors...
Ease of Doing Business Act – the key to the Philippines’ Economic Comeback?
The Philippines has been vying for the ease of doing business act to be signed, and when it was on May 28, economists and...
Identity Politics: Diversion from the Growing Economic Crisis?
By Ghada Chehade
Despite the reality of ever-increasing economic despair – including, and perhaps especially, for minorities – no one is willing to talk about...
EDITOR'S PICK OF THE WEEK
China’s Challenging Search for a New Model of Economic Growth
By Danny Leipziger
China cannot continue to rely on exports to drive its growth, but what are the alternatives?
China ran a $1.2 trillion trade surplus last year, and despite admonitions from the IMF to rely...
