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Central Asia’s New Playbook

BISHKEK : Central Asia – encompassing the former Soviet republics of Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, and Uzbekistan – was among the world’s most troubled regions in the years immediately following the breakup of the Soviet Union. To this day, these five resource-rich countries border some of the world’s tensest hot

Work Is Not Well-Being

Effective interventions would include labor policies that ensure adequate incomes and portable benefits even for gig and informal workers; automatic

Political Changes Don’t Weaken the Case for Green Business

IKEA’s CIRKULÄR initiative, for example, uses financial rewards, humor, and green imagery to encourage customers to buy and sell used

Lessons From the Trump-Musk Feud

Musk’s comments triggered an escalating exchange of threats and recriminations between him and Trump (each relying on his own social

How AI Will Disrupt Big Tech

Regulatory or antitrust actions have sometimes helped unleash innovation – the Federal Communications Commission’s opening of long-distance telecommunications to competition

Europe’s Hard Road to Strategic Sovereignty

US President Donald Trump does not care about Western values. He would rather let Russian President Vladimir Putin carve up

Green Crime Goes Global

The operation, part of a broader crackdown on illicit mining in Indigenous territories, uncovered links to money laundering via shell

Insurers Must Promote the Blue Economy

This will ensure the sustainability of the carbon credits that finance the community’s activities and allow it to pay for

Trump’s Diplomacy of the Absurd

Goosen talked of his crime-afflicted relatives having to erect electric fences. Rupert lobbied for Musk’s Starlink satellite company to equip

Rethinking Europe’s Carbon Border Adjustment Mechanism

Rather than advancing a fair and equitable energy transition, it could stoke trade tensions and fuel economic fragmentation, exacerbate inequality,