IF Insights: The renaissance of state contingent debt instruments
While SCDIs can be powerful tools for speeding up debt restructurings and providing much-needed economic relief, they are not without their challenges...
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Is Europe becoming uncompetitive?
According to a McKinsey Global Institute report, Europe-based big businesses invested 60% less in 2022 than their American counterparts and expanded at a rate of two-thirds slower...
Egypt’s central bank leaves interest rates steady as inflation seen dropping
According to the MPC, inflation would sharply drop in the first quarter of 2025 and economic growth would progressively rebound in the fiscal year that started on July 1...
Business Leader of the Week: Under Murray Auchincloss, BP prioritises profit over climate goals
Murray Auchincloss has taken up the CEO's role after the departure of his predecessor, Bernard Looney, with a promise to focus on delivering value for shareholders...
Boris Johnson hails UAE-UK collaboration in green technology
Former UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson noted that there was a difference between COP26 and COP28...
Eyeing energy security, United Kingdom to build new gas power stations
Rishi Sunak weakened the administration's net zero objectives around the same time frame, notably by pushing back the sale of gasoline and diesel vehicles by five years, until 2035...
Endgame begins for Trump’s Truth Social
As 'Truth Social' witnessed its launch in 2022, backers of the social media network described it as a conservative-friendly alternative to Big Tech platforms...
The ‘Russian Minefield’ for Western businesses
Just before the Ukraine war, Russia approved measures that could lead to the nationalisation of foreign firms suspending their operations in the country's domestic market...
Global economy’s uncertain future
The West thought of hurting Russia's energy trade, the same resource on which Europe's entire economy keeps running...
MacPaw: Defying cyberwar in Ukraine
About one-third of MacPaw's workforce is located outside of Kyiv, either in safer regions of western Ukraine, or around Europe, the UK, or the US...