Reorienting Africa’s Gold Trade for Shared Prosperity: Partnership and Policy Solutions for Inclusive Growth
By Kenneth D. Johnson
Africa’s gold trade loses billions annually to illicit flows, eroding growth and opportunity. Johnson outlines a transformative approach: local refineries, traceability...
Trump Threatens Deep Cuts as Government Shutdown Continues
President Donald Trump on Thursday signaled he intends to use the ongoing government shutdown to target federal agencies and projects linked to Democrats, describing...
Reconfiguring US Hegemony: Militarism, Empire, and the Crisis of Capitalist Accumulation
By Dr. Kalim Siddiqui
This article analyses the decline of United States hegemony through the prism of militarism, empire, and contradictions in capitalist accumulation. Dr...
South–South Partnerships as Catalysts for Transformative Entrepreneurship
By Shameen Prashantham
In this article, Prof Shameen Prashantham explores how South-South business engagement, particularly between Chinese and African firms, can catalyze transformative entrepreneurship. Drawing...
The Angola-to-America-to-Angola Journey: How Wilson Ganga’s Reverse Brain Drain is Transforming a Nation
Every year, 70,000 skilled professionals emigrate from Africa, creating a $2 billion annual economic drain that perpetuates the continent's development challenges. Yet Wilson Ganga...
Cyberwars: How Far Can They Go?
By Joseph Mazur
Although cyberspace connects people globally, facilitating productivity through remote work, it has also fostered a range of malicious activities. Some disturbing actions...
The EU, MENA, and Irregular Migration @ 10: Unfortunately But Inevitably – “Business-as-Usual”
By John Louis B. Benito
The article presents the case about the irregular migration from Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region to the EU. ...
Israel’s Conservative Counter – Revolution
By Dan Steinbock
In the past two decades, the Netanyahu cabinets have sought to legally hammer Israeli democracy into a Jewish autocracy. In the...
Trump’s Tariffs Threats Against the Global South, ASEAN and the Philippines
By Dan Steinbock
With its misguided tariff wars, the Trump administration is undermining global economic prospects and waging war against development in the Global...
What Soft Commodities are Worth Investing in Q3 2025?
By Edward Nikulin
The global agricultural landscape is witnessing a series of significant shifts that are reshaping export dynamics and supply chains. America's abundant harvests...
EDITOR'S PICK OF THE WEEK
The Performance and Transformation Orchestrator: The CFO’s New Mandate in the Age of AI
By Terence Tse
CFOs are evolving into AI-driven transformation orchestrators, balancing finance, technology, and strategy while upskilling teams, managing risks, and driving measurable business value.
A key insight from this year’s AI for CFOs event, organized...
