Looking ahead to 2024, what is the outlook for world trade?

16/01/2024

After a significant expansion in 2021 and 2022, attributable to the post-pandemic recovery, world trade volume growth slowed sharply ...

New trends in the world cotton market

28/11/2023

The most widely used natural fibre in the manufacture of textiles, cotton represents a global market of around 25 ...

Central Asia : towards a new ‘Great Game’ ?

19/11/2023

The theatre of the 19th-century ‘Great Game’, at the heart of Zbigniew Brzezinski’s post-Cold War ‘Great Chessboard’, Central Asia ...

Semiconducteurs : prospects outside Asia

25/10/2023

As a result of rising tensions between Washington and Beijing and fears of a Chinese military operation against Taiwan,  ...

Brazil : a commodity powerhouse on the rise

11/10/2023

Back at the helm of Brazil since January 2023, twelve years after his last term, Lula has embarked on ...

Energy transition, the main reason for China’s changing role in global energy and metals markets

01/10/2023

While world oil prices hover around USD 100 per barrel, Chinese economic growth has continued to disappoint since the ...

Electricity storage: at the dawn of an energy revolution

17/09/2023

Long considered technically and economically unrealistic, direct electricity storage is now a reality.

India in Africa: a rapid rise in trade, but a partnership yet to be written

30/07/2023

Historically a supporter of Africa’s anti-colonial struggles and an active member of the Non-Aligned Movement, India has again been ...

Starlink, OneWeb, Lynk…: how space broadband will transform telecoms in emerging countries

18/06/2023

After SpaceX in 2022, OneWeb will launch a satellite broadband Internet service in 2023. These services are aimed primarily ...

Europe’s Green Deal: what winners and losers outside the EU?

11/06/2023

The European Union has adopted the “Green Deal”, a set of 14 laws aimed at reducing net greenhouse gas ...