The Vatican, with its immense history and religious influence, has a complicated relationship with finance. With increasing skepticism from Catholics around the world, stagnant church membership and financial transparency are possible courses of action that could either revive the church or weaken it.
While carbon offshoring occurs as developed countries continue to shift emission-intensive industries to the developing world, weak environmental laws remain not the sole source of comparative advantage driving offshoring.
How were indigenous people in one of the whitest countries in Latin America able to gain political and economic influence?
The Biden Administration’s substantial strict restrictions on the semiconductor industry in China hit the Chinese semiconductor industry hard. Though China has already been progressing toward semiconductor sufficiency, it will have to invest more in front-end manufacturing.
For decades, Saudi Arabia’s economy heavily relied on its oil export industry. With the global economy pivoting toward renewable energy, the Kingdom’s development of a new mega-city, The Line, foreshadows the nation’s bold endeavor for economic diversification.
Hosting the 2022 FIFA World Cup was one of Qatar’s biggest achievements of the past decade. However, instead of being able to make the most of the potential benefits, the country was left scrambling to fulfill the obligations of a post that ultimately made it worse off than when it first made its bid in 2010.
With Europe facing an energy crisis, grid politics is increasingly defining its political landscape…
The German capital, Berlin, a city once known for its low rent, now faces a housing crisis, driven by a sharp increase in rent prices and unsuccessful policies.
Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva was elected for his third term as president over Jair Bolsonaro, a change signifying a drastically different policy regime for Brazil as compared to Bolsonaro’s deleterious free-market model of governance.
Discrimination against women in the workplace has been gaining increasing attention, eventually leading to the Chinese government passing an amendment to the Women’s Rights and Interests Protection Law. Whether this amendment will have any success or not remains to be seen, however.
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