Economy

China dominates the manufacturing of intermediate goods – so even if a finished product is made elsewhere, it almost certainly includes “Made in China” components. 

Fundamental to the Taliban’s vicious pursuit of power is the strategic use of corruption and kleptocracy. 

The two sides could incorporate a "built-in agenda," putting off thorny issues until after FTA comes into force.

A decade on, the country faces crippling economic challenges and environmental degradation from the ambitious (and still incomplete) highway project. 

Tenzing Lamsang, editor of The Bhutanese, discusses why voters chose the PDP and what the new government has planned, particularly for Bhutan's ailing economy.

Creating seamless regional integration is crucial to the success of the bloc's pathbreaking digital economy agreement.

The planned SEZ is just one of a range of initiatives designed to tighten the economic integration between the two countries.

Despite much talk of a slowdown, there is reason to believe that Chinese loans to African countries will increase in 2024.

There is still a lack of clarity about the government's plans to take out foreign loans to fund the $14.3 billion scheme.

Goods exported to Russia from China via Central Asia need not be weapons in order to contribute to Russia’s war efforts in Ukraine. 

The region is still feeling the economic reverberations of the U.S. Federal Reserve's response to the COVID-19 pandemic.

It’s hard to separate the financial welfare of the Afghan state from the conditions of the people, just as it is difficult to disentangle the Afghan state as it is today from the Taliban.