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Carbon & Climate
India’s critical mineral challenge in a new global resource order
Mineral security is not just about access to resources but about control over value chains. India’s response must be strategic, not reactive.
Policy & Finance
Decolonising economics means questioning where its ideas came from
Decolonising economics challenges Eurocentric assumptions and extractive systems while elevating Global South perspectives and alternative models of economic development.
Carbon & Climate
Who should build the low-carbon economy?
Since the first Industrial Revolution, goods and technologies have reached the farthest corners of the world, but the ability to design, build, market, and extract value from them has remained highly concentrated. Unless humanity can break this pattern, a sufficient response to climate change will remain out of reach.
Carbon & Climate
Malaysia emits like the rich but speaks like the poor
Malaysia faces political, economic and constitutional barriers to curb carbon emission. As the climate bill nears Parliament, can policy finally match the country's carbon reality?
All #economy Opinion
29 July 2026
Carbon & Climate
Will the US climate war with Canada become global?
28 July 2026
Policy & Finance
Why Asia must fight for global tax justice at the UN
21 July 2026
20 July 2026
Policy & Finance
Development economics for an age of upheaval
13 July 2026
Carbon & Climate
Why climate adaptation is Malaysia’s next investment frontier
8 July 2026
7 July 2026
12 June 2026
Policy & Finance
The AI revolution mirrors the green transition
11 June 2026
9 June 2026
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24 May 2026
Policy & Finance
War tests BRICS — and reveals its limits
Policy & Finance
Fossil fuel investments are a fiduciary risk
20 May 2026
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Policy & Finance
Asia's economic diplomacy for tumultuous times
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