The concept of the “Global South” has been all the rage in recent months, along with that of the “de-Westernization of the world”. Is it the same phenomenon and what realities do these two expressions...
The G20 now represents 75% of world trade, nearly two-thirds of the world’s population and more than 80% of the gross world product. Officially, there is parity between the countries of the North and the...
Not too many surprises are expected from the 20th Congress of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP), which meets from October 16 to 23, except perhaps the promotion of newcomers among the seven members of the...
As is often the case, crises are trend gas pedals. This is the case with the covid-19 pandemic, which is a catalyst for the 4th industrial revolution in the face of the unsustainability of the...
We remember the “world before”, marked by the rise of so-called emerging countries. Their weight in the world economy had crossed the threshold of half of the world’s GDP at the time of the 2008...
That Covid-19 comes from the city of Wuhan, China is in no doubt at this point. As new human flus come from Asia every year, almost in a pendulum-like fashion, but also avian flues, the...
In the context of the discussion on the Indian economic slowdown, a significantly different perspective can be offered based on the thesis of an ongoing disruption in the structure of the global economy (deglobalization), coupled...
Since 2014, the Chinese economy has been the first global GDP calculated in purchasing power parity (PPP) and the gap has widened steadily with the United States: 19.2% of world GDP against 15% for its rival. Since...
Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi was born in 1869 in Porbandar, India, Gujarat, the province of the current Prime Minister Narendra Modi. Although at the opposite of Gandhi’s thinking and especially his non-violent practice, Modi obviously did...
Viewed from richer countries and specially old Europe, the world is crazy. It is heading for disaster. China is on its long journey towards a final financial crisis. India fell into fanatical religious nationalism and...
“Don’t blame God for creating the tiger, but thank him for not giving it wings. “One wonders if ancestral Indian wisdom has not again struck. And this time, Narendra Modi, having triumphed in power in...
It is paradoxical that it is in a country like India that economists are so serioulsy taken the climate change subject head-on. Particularly in the equivalent of the Report on the Nation’s Accounts. The Economic...
