The world economy faced several crises in 2022 that highlighted the need for more balanced development. Although the COVID-19 outbreak was still felt globally, the conflict in Ukraine affected the food and energy markets, causing severe mal...
Global growth is expected to slow down due to the rise of inflation, disruptions caused by the Russia invasion of Ukraine, and reduced investment (World bank report). Unfavorable economic conditions are expected to cause the global economy ...
Climate change will have the greatest impact on emerging countries, with impoverished populations being especially poorly struck and unable to adapt sufficiently. There is a chance for developing nations to take a complementary strategy, st...
The IPEF was launched on May 23, 2022 jointly by US and other countries of Indo Pacific region. It was initially composed of 14 founding member nations. Fiji was the first South Pacific Island nation to join the group. The invitation to oth...
The G20 Foreign Minister’s Meeting (FMM) held on 7-8 July 2002 was marked by the theme “Building a more peaceful, stable, and prosperous world together”. The meeting was divided into two sessions. The first session held was regarding streng...
The Prime Ministers of India, Japan, and Australia, as well as the US President, launched the Indo-Pacific Economic Framework (IPEF) on May 24, a day before the Quad leaders' second in-person Summit in Tokyo, with Indonesia, South Korea, Ma...
The World Health Organization declared COVID-19 a Public Health Emergency of International Concern on January 30, 2020, and endowed a pandemic status on March 12, 2020. COVID-19 remains an unprecedented public health crisis having global an...
The First Mekong-Japan SDGs Forum meeting was held on 20 December 2021 and this was attended by countries like Japan, Cambodia, Laos, Myanmar, Thailand and Vietnam.
The world today is all about a ‘network of networks’ whether through land, sea or air and most countries are looking for better ways of communication and interconnectedness. The Indo-Pacific is one such way of interconnectedness and here, t...
The Quad Leaders’ Summit on 24 September 2021 released the ‘Quad Principles on Technology Design, Development, Governance and Use’ and this has paved the way for new technological evolution which would globally change the technologically dy...
The European Growth and Development (EGD) is a new strategy that aims to transform the EU into a more sustainable and resource-efficient economy. The strategy is part of the Commission's strategy to implement the 2030 Agenda and its 17 Sust...
Estonia lies in north-eastern Europe, bordering Russia on the east, Latvia to the south, to its west lies the Baltic Sea. The nation with a population of just about 1.3 million first experienced cyber war in 2007. The cybersecurity crisis b...
