Have global supply chains had their day? A quick scan would suggest not. But times are changing. Supply chains are shrinking. Production in some areas is coming home and firms are seriously rethinking ...

Reliance on Middle Eastern oil and gas has dominated the energy industry for decades now, but the instability caused by the political situation has led many enthusiastic buyers – like the US – to look ...

We hear a lot of the technological dangers to our planet – oil, gas, coal, concrete, plastics, the list goes on – but what of the technological solutions? Lithium, an unremarkable silvery grey in ...

When Jared Bibler visited Iceland for the first time in 2002, he couldn’t imagine that one day he would become an Icelander himself. A native of Massachusetts in the US, he was working for an ...

Move over, millennials: Gen Z is here, and is ready to spend. Generation Z – or those born between the years of 1997 and 2012, for the uninitiated – now account for a staggering 40 percent of ...

The country is forging ahead with its ambitious attempts to transition from a manufacturing-heavy economic model to a services-led one. A number of policies and initiatives are being employed to ...

It was revealed, in a survey carried out by the Lincoln Institute of Land Policy (LILP) in 2019, that 90 percent of the 200 cities around the globe that were polled were considered to be unaffordable ...

With a fortune estimated at $940m, Baba Ahmadou Danpullo is ranked number one on Forbes Afrique’s rankings – the French edition of the US magazine. Danpullo is a discreet man, avoiding the media and ...

Global warming from carbon emissions, increasing sea levels and images of pollution are increasing public and shareholder pressure on corporations to take an active role in finding solutions and be ...

There’s a reason China has been named “the world’s factory”. According to data published by the United Nations Statistics Division, China accounted for almost 30 percent of global manufacturing output ...

President Donald Trump’s economic nationalism was shaking confidence in the dollar’s standing even before the COVID-19 pandemic. But the crisis has stoked fears that the greenback could lose its ...

There is a stereotype about Chinese students that has taken root in the West. It says that they are industrious, hard-working and, most significantly, smart. It’s one of the reasons China is expected ...