... and frontier markets, attracted to the higher returns available. sovereign debt government bonds default finance economic policy emerging markets A new wave of sovereign debt defaults and restructurings is under way. Lebanon, Russia, Sri Lanka, Suriname, and Zambia are officially in default...

... transparency. Indonesia consumers digital economy economic policy corruption Yet there is also a temporal dimension to financialization: the innovations linked to finance always outpace the learning curve of the average person, such that sociopolitical anxieties converge around those “left behind...

... that view the fusion of state and private interests in China as a threat to their own national security. China economic policy communism capitalism business Xi Jinping “In a party-state capitalist system, the state’s prioritization of political goals drastically limits the scope for making...