This month saw the grand finalé of the G20 2023 summits under India’s presidency. New Delhi, India’s capital was suitably sanitized, beautified and locked down – for a 3-day holiday – so that leaders of the world’s most economically powerful countries as well as heads of multilateral institutions who had descended upon the city could… Continue reading G20 and BRICS, All in Expansion Mode
Almost two years after the waning of the Covid pandemic and a year and a half of the conflict in Ukraine, the world is still fighting consumer price inflation in most parts of the world. That continues to be the biggest obstacle to growth and economic recovery, as consumers cut back their spending, especially on… Continue reading The Fractious State of the Global Economy
I have been writing about EU’s CBAM on my blog ever since I read about it in The Economist, so it came as a surprise to me that CBAM is to go into effect in October this year. I had in fact, written after the climate summit at Glasgow, that it was disappointing to read… Continue reading Expand and Reform CBAM For the World
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