Their interests lay in supplying cheap cotton to British mills in return for being a market for factory-made goods from Manchester and Lancashire. As a contemporary economist Henry C. Carey wrote in ...

Since taking over Afghanistan in August 2021, the Taliban regime has faced escalating tensions with neighbouring countries, particularly over water issues and regional security. The regime’s deadly ...

While Australia is a major producer of raw materials, it remains heavily dependent on China for midstream processing and downstream manufacturing.

Indeed, the election result in November was a victory both for Donald Trump and for the more than 100,000 users of online prediction markets, such as Polymarket, Kalshi and PredictIt, willing to make ...

We are featuring a series of highlights from across the year, with normal publishing to resume 6 January 2025. This article first appeared on 21 May 2024. It is commonly agreed that the Biden ...

Pacific Islands countries view Donald Trump’s impending return as US president with hope and apprehension. Trump’s attention on the region amid geopolitical tension with China could help address the ...

Donald Trump dislikes the strong US dollar, blaming this for America’s lack of international competitiveness and large current account deficit. Trump believes foreigners have gained unfair competitive ...

Vanuatu’s devastating earthquake on Tuesday compounds a political crisis that was already unfolding in the Pacific Island country. Politics has been rightly shoved to the side in the immediate ...

With 2023 the year that AI became a feature rather than the future, 2024 was the year AI hype peaked. Breathless announcements of new developments underscored the turning point as globally we saw the ...