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Nigeria’s Lekki Deep Sea Port is also its largest, and will boost the country’s ability to process imports and exports.
Manufacturing firms exposed to increased Chinese competition employed fewer female production workers than men.
The EU have introduced a new regulation on the import of products linked to deforestation – but will this reduce deforestation globally?
Many countries export their plastic waste abroad – but the mismanagement of this plastic waste is one of the leading causes of plastic pollution in nature.
A new study shows what it would mean for Europe and China, and why the US might not be too excited about the idea.
No electric vehicle maker currently meets all the bill’s supply chain requirements, not even Tesla. One big reason: China.
Approximately 8,000 merchant vessels travel the St. Lawrence each year. Its ports have become the catalysts that link trade, development and industrial innovation.
If the crisis worsens, more people will ask, how did this happen? The answer will be simple: governments made good laws, but they did not enforce them.
An infant nutrition expert explains the efforts to ensure there is enough baby formula for US consumption and the differences between domestic and imported produce.
As long as industrial policies in Nigeria are introduced only as a crisis response, import restrictions will continue to be their focus.
It’s easy to blame COVID. But Australia has suffered medicine shortages for years. The pandemic has only highlighted the problem. Here’s what we could do to better avoid shortages in the first place.
The Ghanaian currency is facing structural hurdles.
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.
It’s meant to stop what’s known as ‘carbon leakage’ – when production moves elsewhere to avoid climate policies – but the solution has economic, legal and environmental consequences.
An economist puzzles over why fireworks have been going off nightly across the country for so many weeks in a row.
Is the UK economy booming or are the statistics being twisted out of shape by the shuffling of gold bullion?
New tariffs on $160 billion of Chinese goods including smartphones and sneakers are set to take effect on Dec. 15.
The US-China trade war shows no signs of slowing down. Here’s what readers need to know.
In a global economy, passing laws to conserve forests, fisheries or other natural resources can simply shift demand for those goods to other countries or regions where they aren’t as well protected.
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