Mexico may have caved to US pressure on its nationalist approach to the energy sector in an unexpected way. Amid a simmering dispute over US investment south of the border, Mexico has diffused...
Emerging Markets
The investment-management industry breaks down the world’s economies conveniently into major and emerging markets. Those metrics may be less relevant on a real-economy basis, given the enormous wealth that is being generated from what was once called—pejoratively—the third world. As income grows in developing nations, fresh themes evolve for global investors. Technology adoption and health-care expenditure are just two examples. Primary industries are no longer the whole story.
A strange thing happened in Afghanistan this month. The Taliban outlawed poppy cultivation. On the surface, that decision would appear to be a bold, counter...
The existential threat to Egypt that is harbored in higher food prices is more than a topic for debate. Abu Dhabi just announced that it is backstopping Cairo...
Tehran’s ability to project its stature across the Middle East has been severely curtailed in recent months because of the economic collapse at home. Most...
Maritime security has been transitioning from a fractionalized industry to a more rational business dominated by a handful of major players. Does this...
The announcement at the end of 2017 by US-based Kohler Co., the manufacturer of high-end kitchen and bathroom fixtures, that it was inaugurating an Indonesian...
Some analysts dismiss the ethnic attacks in Sri Lanka last week as a purely domestic affair. Globalists should be less cavalier. The tragedy is a sobering...