Silk Road to Belt and Road Understanding Chinese Engagement in Kyrgyzstan
The Kyrgyz Republic gained independence in 1991. However, as the country is nestled firmly in the centre of Eurasia, its cities and people have...
The Shadow Economies of Exploitation Human Trafficking and State Capacity in the Indo-Pacific
Human trafficking is not only a major human rights crisis, but also an economic storm that undermines wages, governments, and the region’s economic order....
How North Korean Women Broke the Command Economy
When Rüdiger Frank visited North Korea, he expected to see surreal images of xenophobia and nationalist pride that the regime’s tightly controlled media showed...
China’s Rare Earth Elements Trade Policies
Rare earth elements (REE) have been a key subject of geopolitics in recent years, and in 2025, they are a more pressing topic than...
Financial Inclusion: Islamic Banking in East Africa
Despite rapid globalisation, roughly half of the world’s adult population still lives outside the formal banking system. For some, the obstacles are practical: limited...
Independent Money
From the start of his second administration, American President Donald Trump sent shockwaves through global financial markets and the community of economists by taking...
The Inevitable Rise of China? Unpacking the Limits of the Chinese Growth Model
Over the past few decades, China’s economic transformation has been miraculous. The country has risen from dire poverty to become the world’s second-largest economy,...
Sustainability versus Finance – The EU’s Fight for Financially Responsible Climate Legislation
The European Union finds itself at a crossroads yet again. A slow recovery from the COVID-19 crisis as well as the ensuing price increases...
The AI Revolution
Polemics Coverage of the Dialogue of Continents Conference, organized by the Reinventing Bretton Woods Committee, December 4-5, 2023.
As part of the Dialogue of Continents...
An International Financial System for All? Climate, Security, Resilience, and the Changing Nature of...
Polemics Coverage of the Dialogue of Continents Conference, organized by the Reinventing Bretton Woods Committee, December 4-5, 2023.
The last panel of the conference was...
