The last few years of this decade have seen some surprises in terms of political victories, and 2019 is no exception. Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison’s victory in Saturday’s elections prove that yet again, conservatives have defied the polls and...
In 2004, The Italian Business Council of Qatar (IBCQ) was established in Doha when the Italian population was just slightly more than 300. “There was a need for a community organization to allow people to socialize through dinners or informal...
The jingoistic attacks on world trade by the Trump administration have already hurt economic growth in Europe. Europe, just starting out on an uneven recovery, could plunge into recession if world trade is disrupted further. Oxford Economics in London estimates...
Blockchain, designed to serve as a sort of transaction log for Bitcoin cryptocurrency, has been around for just over a decade, being announced in 2008. (Bitcoin became available and was in circulation by 2009.) As of December of last year,...
Over the past three decades, Pakistan has been a regular customer of the International Monetary Fund’s bailouts. So much so that every government that has come into power since 1988 has turned to the lender, even if only a handful...
The days are gone when Marco Polo described how long the path towards Asia was, and what he could barter during the incredible travels he accomplished at the time. Nowadays China, the destination of his previous commercial trip is a...
As Mario Draghi’s term as president comes to an end, the battle over who will succeed him has brought all of the flaws that plague the European Central Bank to the fore. “The Eurozone will endure, but it will not...
(Cairo) The cause for the current rise in the exchange rate of the Egyptian pound against the US dollar are a set of factors that all reflect a national economic rebound, economists have said. The Egyptian pound has been gaining...
The New Silk Roads, or Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) are the most wide-ranging, far-reaching, multinational, multicultural economic development project of the 21st century, spanning Eurasia and beyond. There are no alternatives in the market – any market. The West,...
The Italian economy is hitting headlines again, with no end in sight to its continuing problems. The Daily Express reported that the relationship between Rome and Brussels is deteriorating. The European Commissioner for Economic and Financial Affairs, Pierre Moscovici, has...