CEBR Issues Report Stating US Will Gain US$400 Billion From Chinese Global Belt & Road Infrastructure Improvements A report issued by the UK based Centre for Economics and Business Research (CEBR) indicates that the United States, despite its criticism of China’s Belt & Road Initiative, is actually a beneficiary of the scheme. The report, which was[…..]
Euromoney have just released their Belt & Road Results Index for Q3 2019, and reported that out of 68 national economies that have signed up to the Belt & Road Initiative, 52 of them have seen rising GDP and/or improving investor climates. The Euromoney Belt and Road Index combines International Monetary Fund (IMF) GDP figures with[…..]
Compiled By Chris Devonshire-Ellis Analysis & Opinion Europe Needs China’s Billions. But Does It Know The Price? (The Guardian) Europe Needs Its Own Belt & Road Initiative (Financial Times) Europe And China’s Belt & Road Initiative: Growing Concerns, More Strategy (Egmont Institute) The One Trillion Euro Idea (Berlin Policy Journal) China’s Belt & Road Initiative:[…..]
The World Bank has stated this month that Kazakhstan has the lowest rate of poverty in Central Asia. Also, in the Central Asian region, where the population is growing quickly, the absolute number of people living in poverty has fallen. The pace of this progress however is slowing down. Meanwhile, Kazakhstan moved up three spots[…..]
Coup for China in Middle Eastern BRI Promotions Annual Investment Meeting (AIM), the Dubai based investment platform, and China Venture Capital Research Institute (CVCRI) have signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) for a long-term strategic partnership to share resources and to boost investment opportunities within the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI). The MoU was signed[…..]
Poland’s Gdansk Port has received the inaugural Euro-China Train (ECT), as China’s Belt and Road Initiative realizes a direct link to the Baltic Sea.
Compiled By Chris Devonshire-Ellis Analysis & Opinion The China Challenge (Harvard) What Is America’s “Blue Dot” Infrastructure Network? (Silk Road Briefing) US Late In Pushing Blue Dot To Counter China’s Belt & Road (Asia Nikkei) China’s Belt & Road Initiative Is Tying The World Together – But What’s The End Game? (Archpaper) BRI Could Provide[…..]
Op/Ed By Chris Devonshire-Ellis The Presidents and Prime Ministers of Brazil, China, India, Russia and South Africa have just returned from the annual BRICS summit, held this year in Brasilia. At the close of the event, the five leaders jointly issued a declaration of intent, part of the content which I covered in the article[…..]
The New Development Bank has been called upon to make greater contributions to the economic and social development of the BRICS countries, as well as emerging market economies and developing world in general.
Op/Ed by Chris Devonshire-Ellis A US/Australian/Japanese Global Infrastructure Projects Rating Agency Is Born The United States last week, along with Japan and Australia, unveiled what they have termed the “Blue Dot” network, and have officially described it as “promoting global, multi-stakeholder sustainable infrastructure development in the Indo-Pacific region and around the world.” But what is[…..]