Economy

Japan’s tightening of trade controls against Seoul in 2019 was widely seen as retaliation for a South Korean court ruling on World War II-era forced labor.

Whether or not the rail line turns a profit, Jakarta is hoping that the project brings a wider range of subsidiary benefits.

Boosters of microfinance claim that it can rescue people from rapacious informal lenders. That’s not the case in Cambodia.

Insights from Max J. Zenglein.

For Kazakhstan, the secondary sanctions risk is not just hypothetical.

The key to escape Pakistan’s sovereign debt trap is hiding in plain sight – deleveraging.

The targeting of the Myanma Foreign Trade Bank and Myanma Investment and Commercial Bank is designed to choke off the military's access to the U.S. dollar.

There is revived talk about the International North South Transport Corridor, but can the project overcome divergences between India, Iran, and Russia?

Despite the bad press that it generated, Canadian Bob Pickard's resignation from the Beijing-based development bank is unlikely to have a lasting impact.

Many governments are facing the question of whether to absorb rising energy prices, or put the burden on the shoulders of consumers.

There's a long way to go, but the country has most of the ingredients it needs to be a significant player in global EV supply chains.