Retail giants like Amazon or the Walmart-owned Flipkart increasingly dictate the Indian e-commerce market, frustrating local businesses and offline sellers. A few months before the 2019 general election, the Department of Industrial Policy and Promotion stepped in and drafted a new e-commerce policy...

Highly dependent on its oil industry, Venezuela’s economy is increasingly corroded by a weak state infrastructure and international sanctions affecting oil exports. Since the onset of the country’s presidential crisis in January 2019...

By 2050, roughly 40% of Japan's population will be over the age of 65 years. This has serious implications for the country’s economy and labor market...

The Syrian Civil War has been ongoing since 2011 and is now entering a new phase. Kurdish military forces in the country's northeast face an impending assault from either Turkish or Syrian forces...

While it was clear that the African National Congress would win the general election in 2019, the extent of the party’s victory was critical. On May 8, 2019, approximately 27 million South Africans...

A United Nations (UN) fact-finding mission confirmed in October 2018 that the Rohingya crisis in Myanmar continues to simmer, displacing thousands of people of the Rohingya ethnic group and forcing them to seek refuge in neighboring Bangladesh. During the peak of the conflict in 2017...

The legal service industry continues to innovate as new technology evolves. Legal technology (LegTech) solutions are projected to replace traditional legal practice. In 2018, legal technology generated over $1 billion of investment, reaching a growth rate of 713%. This massive investment...

Argentina’s President Mauricio Macri has been struggling to ease the country’s ongoing economic slump. On April 25, 2019, the Argentinan Peso fell to a record low of 46.5 per U.S. dollar. In March 2019, consumer prices increased by 4.7%, leaving Argentina’s population frustrated with...

Austria’s national intelligence agencies have been under close scrutiny by international intelligence services since right-wing parties have gained traction in the country. Western secret services and European intelligence sharing networks in particular now fear that...

North Korea’s economy has been suffering for a long time. Victims of this situation are largely the North Korean people, who experienced a reduction in daily food rations from 360 grams (12.7 ounces) to 300 grams (10.6 ounces) per person in January 2019...