Investments

Trump’s Tariffs Against China: A Threat To Countries’ Legitimate  Development  Rights

Trump’s Tariffs Against China: A Threat To Countries’ Legitimate  Development Rights

For almost four months now, the Trump administration has arguably rattled global trade, economists, shocked business executives and set off heated exchanges with not only the world’s second largest economy – China, but also US’s largest trading partners and allies like Canada and Mexico. While economists and corporate executives expressed concerns that such shift in […]

US Trade Tariffs on China and Vietnam Overestimate American Bargaining Power

US Trade Tariffs on China and Vietnam Overestimate American Bargaining Power

As of Wednesday 2nd April, 2025, the American President, Donald.J. Trump announced tariffs globally against countries he accuses of benefitting off what he calls American clemency and the ineptitude of the previous administration. In his attempt to usher in a “Golden Age for America” he has announced a broad range of tariffs with particular force being applied […]

China Town and the Ugandan Economy: A Debate on Growth and Consumer Choices

China Town and the Ugandan Economy: A Debate on Growth and Consumer Choices

One of the most difficult yet overly simplified ideas in economics is the economic growth of nations. Economists and pundits seem to always analyse by analogy, connecting dots backwards to define unique or even random experiences of developed nations and claiming that they developed because of certain economic policies they pursued.  The truth is that […]

Trump’s Trade War Against China: It Has Nothing In It for Americans– Trump Does Not Care

Trump’s Trade War Against China: It Has Nothing In It for Americans– Trump Does Not Care

On Tuesday last week, a Trump 10% tariff increase on goods imported from China came in effect triggering an almost immediate response by the Chinese government that imposed several duties on United States produced commodities thereby reviving the US-China trade war. President Trump’s insistence on doing things this way is puzzling because all signs show that […]

China Expands Africa’s International Trade Potential

China Expands Africa’s International Trade Potential

Any country’s development plays out based on its participation in international trade. Countries with higher participation in global trade are comparatively wealthier than those with lower participation. Therefore, for African countries to develop, they must increase their business involvement with other countries on the international market. Several factors determine this. One of those is the […]

China-Uganda Energy Cooperation through the eyes of the ordinary citizen

China-Uganda Energy Cooperation through the eyes of the ordinary citizen

Like many post independence African states, Uganda was struggling to free itself from the chokeholds of infrastructure-gaps, low levels of skills and technology as well as the associated high-levels of poverty. Therefore, in a bid to find suitable partnerships in solving many of these problems, Uganda established diplomatic ties with the People’s Republic of China […]