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Careful diplomacy rather than uncritical alliances will help steer a course through Australia’s foreign policy challenges.
Kenya’s ethnic-based politics often leads to electoral violence that hurts regional trade.
Harnessing the combined effect of trade and urbanisation could significantly boost the economies of African countries.
The global external shocks require a total rethink, repurpose and reform of the process of globalisation.
The start of the hajj is reigniting debates around its commercialization, but pilgrimages are also a time for seeking business opportunities, writes a scholar of Islam.
For years, New Zealand has tried to separate its economic dependency on China from its pro-Western strategic alliances. The new Indo-Pacific Economic Framework tests that balancing act even more.
Russia’s war has had an unexpected impact on global trade patterns, raising the price on goods but weakening currencies. What’s behind this unexpected blip?
The fear that borrowers’ strategic assets are at risk from Chinese banks continues to fail the test of evidence.
As long as industrial policies in Nigeria are introduced only as a crisis response, import restrictions will continue to be their focus.
Modelling suggests Australia would lose half of its export income and one fifth of its jobs if a new “bamboo curtain” cut the economies of China, Russia and like-minded nations off from the West.
Opportunities for social mobility, rather than simply economic incentives, have generated emigration from China to countries like Ghana.
Palm oil is one of the 21st century’s most contentious agricultural commodities, but its relationship with humans goes back thousands of years.
Egypt is already feeling the impact of the war, which has led to recent cancellation of tenders due to lack of offers, in particular from Ukraine and Russia.
The US, Japan and other wealthy G-7 nations plan to remove Russia’s status as a most-favored nation. A trade expert explains what that term means and what might happen next.
In the short term, the war is causing energy prices to soar and prompting fears of famine in some countries. In the long term, it could remake the modern global supply chain.
The Ghanaian currency is facing structural hurdles.
As the world rightfully fears for the Ukrainian people, we must not turn a blind eye to Russians who are also Putin’s victims and will suffer the most from economic sanctions.
The recent US ban on avocado imports from Mexico underscores the risks of being so heavily reliant on a product that comes from one region in one country that’s rife with violence and corruption.
Research suggests that two factors are most important when making decisions on how businesses should respond to the U.S.-China trade war: location and supply chain dependence, and technology.
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Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra
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Associate Professor of Political Science, Georgia State University
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Assistant Professor of Economics, University of California, Merced
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Tony Walker is a Friend of The Conversation.
Vice-Chancellor's Fellow, La Trobe University
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Lecturer of international trade law, Monash Business School, Monash University
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Distinguished Professor, Arthur J. Gosnell Professor of Economics, & Interim Head, Department of Sustainability, Rochester Institute of Technology
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Senior Lecturer in EU and International Economic Law, Queen's University Belfast
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Reader in Economics, University of Sussex Business School, University of Sussex
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Former Foundation Professor of Animal Welfare, University of Queensland, Curtin University
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Senior Lecturer in International Relations, University of Bath
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Lecturer in History, University of Exeter
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Associate Professor of Political Science, University of Arizona
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Senior Lecturer in Economics, Aston University
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Director and Professor, Australia-China Relations Institute (ACRI), University of Technology Sydney
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Associate Professor, Agri-Food Trade and Policy, University of Guelph
