The Global Economics

Oceania may consequently find itself at the centre of a new infrastructure competition.

Oceania is entering a new infrastructure era in which ports, power networks, submarine cables and data centres are no longer separate pieces of economic machinery. They a...

If Indonesia can connect its industrial strategy with genuinely low-carbon electricity, the country’s competitive position could become considerably stronger.

Indonesia has spent the past decade turning its vast nickel reserves into one of the most powerful positions in the global electric-vehicle supply chain. What was once largely an exporter of raw mine...

Riyadh’s biotech ambitions also coincide with Saudi Arabia’s aggressive investment in artificial intelligence.

Saudi Arabia is making a calculated move into one of the world economy’s most strategically important industries: biotechnology. What began as part of t...

If the strategy succeeds, Quebec could give Canada something it has so far lacked in the LFP market: a domestic source of a key cathode ingredient that can potentially connect mining, chemical processing and battery manufacturing within North America.

Quebec is quietly positioning itself at an unusual but potentially important point in the global battery i...

In late August, the country’s interim President Delcy ​Rodriguez said that an energy agreement with the White House would remain effective for 25 years.

The US government has bought a 35% passive stake in Venezuelan businessman Alejandro Betancourt’s North American Blue Energy Partners. It plans to obtain preferential rights to purchase 20% of the company’...