Their interests lay in supplying cheap cotton to British mills in return for being a market for factory-made goods from Manchester and Lancashire. As a contemporary economist Henry C. Carey wrote in ...

Since taking over Afghanistan in August 2021, the Taliban regime has faced escalating tensions with neighbouring countries, particularly over water issues and regional security. The regime’s deadly ...

While Australia is a major producer of raw materials, it remains heavily dependent on China for midstream processing and downstream manufacturing.

Indeed, the election result in November was a victory both for Donald Trump and for the more than 100,000 users of online prediction markets, such as Polymarket, Kalshi and PredictIt, willing to make ...

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Manmohan Singh, India’s prime minister from 2004 to 2014, passed away on 26 December 2024 in New Delhi, aged 92. Born in Gah, a small village in what is today Pakistan’s Punjab province, his family ...

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