The expansion of the BRICS in 2023-2024 has led to fundamental changes on the global energy map, creating an alliance with a critical mass of resources. The BRICS countries control 35.2 per cent of ...

The political fallout from Trump’s reciprocal tariff regime has wider ramifications. Arrangements that were formed during ...

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The fact that the G20 meeting of finance ministers and central bank governors was able to release a joint statement after the ...

South Africa’s state-owned electricity company, Eskom, is trying to protect its monopoly in the face of the envisaged transition to a liberalised energy market. The utility has gone to the Gauteng ...

What is a tariff? A tariff is simply a tax on imports, which is charged at the border when the imported goods enter the tariff-imposing country. The answer to ‘who pays the tariff?’ is a little more ...

The Trump administration called these measures “reciprocal”, asserting they mirrored and counteracted trade barriers faced by US exports. On 31 July, President Trump signed another Executive Order ...

The Third UN Conference on LLDCs adopted the Awaza Programme of Action for the Landlocked Developing Countries for the Decade 2024-2034 (APoA). This document represents a renewed and action-oriented ...

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