Exports to other EU nations rose only 0.1%. German imports were flat compared with September and down 0.6% on the year. The unexpectedly upbeat exports report followed data last week showing that factory orders and industrial production both declined in October. Germany only narrowly avoided ...
As the U.S. and China coexist, compete, and confront each other to determine who will set the geopolitical rules, they will either court or thwart an emerging group of countries to gain an edge. This new class of influential nations are the geopolitical swing states of the 21st century. T...
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Micro-, small, and medium-size enterprises (MSMEs) form the backbone of economies. Across the 16 countries we examine, MSMEs account for two-thirds of business employment in advanced economies—and almost four-fifths in emerging economies—as well as half of all value added. Th...
For a large part, the law of the sea is based on a tension between sovereignty and freedom. Sovereignty projected out to sea is, in essence, the claim by coastal States to extend their exclusive control over the adjacent sea. Freedom, on the other hand,
Despite SCD's substantial health burden in Africa, there is no coherent funding effort to address it on the scale of initiatives such as the Gavi vaccine alliance or the Global Fund for malaria and HIV. Moreover, most high-burden African countries have no budgetary alloca- tion for SCD ...
In 2014, the United Nations-sponsored tribunal in Phnom Penh, the Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia (ECCC), convicted two former top leaders of Pol Pot’s regime of the crimes against humanity of extermination (“encompassing murder” and producing “deaths on a massive scale”)...
While the ocean has long been portrayed as a victim, threatened by global warming and acidification, it is now increasingly framed as a key ‘solution’ to the climate crisis. For instance, at the launch of the United Nations (UN) Decade for Ocean Science for Sustainable Development, hosted ...
While things are changing, we live in an extremely patriarchal society. There are some 195 nations recognised currently, and 18 of them have a female head of state. That’s less than 10%, and this is likely a record for female leadership. Another source of power is wealth, a much murkie...
“However, as 2023 has demonstrated, the future could scarcely be brighter for this green, clean source of energy. “If current projections hold, our global community of nations will add more renewable energy to the grid over the next five years than it managed over the past hundred years ...