Nagorno-Karabakh Conflict: An Economic Perspective
While the conflict in Nagorno-Karabakh may have been fought militarily, the form the war took was decisively shaped by economics. Namely, because of economics,...
Paradise Lost – The Venezuelan Crisis and the Response of the International Community
Venezuela anguishes in what is being described as the country’s worst economic, social and political crisis to date. A combination of low oil prices,...
What 43 Billion Dollars Could Have Done: The Economic Crisis in Sri Lanka and...
Around the same time Elon Musk made a bid for Twitter at 43 billion USD, Sri Lanka defaulted on its 51 billion USD external...
“We Need The Next Marx!”
By: Thomas Kögler (Guest Writer)
In his magisterial “Capital in the Twenty-First Century,” the French economist Thomas Piketty showed that inequality in terms of both...
Social Entrepreneurship as an Antidote to Lebanon’s Economic Collapse?
Lebanon’s economy is reeling after an extraordinarily tumultuous year in the Levantine nation’s history. In a country that has been witnessing a revolutionary struggle...
Duties of a good neighbour? Refugee policies in Jordan
The influx of Syrian refugees has seriously altered the demography of Jordan. As the refugee population continues to grow, pressure mounts on the already...
The Forgotten Crisis in Afghanistan
August 2021 was a month like no other for eleven-year-old Temur and his family. This was, of course, when the Taliban succeeded in toppling...
The Singapore of Africa?
In November 2018, during a business trip to the Rwandan capital Kigali, Alibaba co-founder Jack Ma did not mince his words. Calling Rwanda “a...
Boosting Women Entrepreneurship in the Med: Such a Mad Idea?
5Gender equality, anchored at the very heart of human rights, has been gaining considerable momentum over the course of the past few years. Still,...
Rethinking Stimulus Packages in Developing Nations
Three words have dominated the world of finance and economics in the year 2021, “supply chain”, “inflation” and “stimulus package”. You might have noticed...
