Sudip Ranjan Basu As the people of Kiribati, Samoa and Tonga gear up as the first nations to welcome 2021, communities around the Asia-Pacific region and beyond look forward to bidding farewell to the most tumultuous year in recent decades. 2020 brought unparalleled human suffering that continued to devastatingly impact on the daily lives of […]
Volatile oil futures in 2020 – whither Central Asia
nCa Commentary It is as if the analysts are taking out vastly differing rabbits from one big hat as far as the predictions about the oil prices next year are concerned. The Central Bank of Russia issued its updated macroeconomic forecasts on 9 September 2019 in which it does not rule out the oil prices […]