(click to enlarge) Like most economies across the globe, Japan’s has taken a hit from the coronavirus pandemic. The world’s third-largest economy contracted for three consecutive quarters beginning in Q4 of 2019. Its real gross domestic product shrank 4.8 percent in 2020 – the largest decrease since 2009. Still, all things considered, Japan has weathered […]
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Latin American economies, like most economies of the world, will struggle to recover from the economic blow of 2020. Even before the...
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After signing a cease-fire deal that ended the war in the disputed region of Nagorno-Karabakh in November, Russia, Armenia and Azerbaijan reached...
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The share of renewables in European energy production in 2020 increased to 38 percent, overtaking fossil fuels (which fell to 37 percent)...
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The Keystone XL pipeline project is no stranger to controversy. It has inspired protests and objections from environmentalists and indigenous groups for...
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Geopolitical Futures’ 2021 forecast, released earlier this week, predicts that the process by which COVID-19 vaccines are distributed and administered this year...
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As much of the European Union goes under stricter lockdown over the holiday season, economic figures released last week for the third...
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Since late April, the U.S. Census Bureau has been doing a so-called Household Pulse Survey, which regularly collects data from U.S. households...
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Judging solely by its headline figures, the newly inked 15-member Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership (RCEP) – by most metrics the world’s largest...
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As a part of the Trump administration’s maximum pressure campaign against Iran, the U.S. government has imposed new sanctions on Iran throughout...
Special Collection – The Middle East