A recent report looking at the future of the world economy published by Standard Chartered was a timely reminder of the cyclical nature of the…
Sri Lanka: Can the peace dividend continue? Sri Lanka recently brought an end to its long running civil war and is enjoying a honeymoon of…
India – China For many years these two Asian giants barely traded with one another, instead maintaining a cool distance, in the last few years this…
China has taken an increasingly influential role in Nigeria. Trade between the two countries totalled $8.2 billion in 2011, just behind Angola and South Africa,…
When I last travelled from the Sri Lankan capital Colombo to Galle in the south of the country it was down a two lane, bumpy,…
Indian engagement in Africa India’s biggest mobile carrier, Bharti Airtel, was feeling the effects of a rapidly saturating Indian phone market: by 2015 over 75%…
An HSBC report entitled “The Southern Silk Road, Turbocharging South-South economic growth” was released in June 2011; it has been influential in making the case…
The Turkish PM Recep Erdogan and his family made a dramatic trip to the war torn Somali capital Mogadishu earlier this year. Only the bravest…
In a sign of changing economic times Portuguese graduates are flocking to the booming economies of Angola and Mozambique to find work, very often ending…