Barely a week goes by without Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) figuring prominently in the Australian business and financial news.
Australia's new Prime Minister, Kevin Rudd, is happy to consider a rough model along such lines. His target year for establishing it is 2020. On June 4, a keen Rudd sketched a few ideas for the Asia Society Australasia Centre in Sydney.
If we are entering an era in which natural resources will be worth seizing or monopolising, then the sea will [...]
Sovereign wealth fund money, which exceeds $7.8 trillion, are emerging as one of the most powerful clandestine forces shaping equity [...]
It is one of the greatest accomplishments of modern history - the world population doubled in 50 years, but the food supply kept pace.
All eyes are on wheat, a sector that is now said to be at the doorstep of the next wave of consolidation.
Kevin Rudd has come to power at a time when the balancing act Australia faces in maintaining good relationships with the major Asian powers has never been so fraught or complex.