One of the professed objectives of the Government is to democratise the economy. This was mentioned in the report on the state of the economy Setting the Stage for Robust Growth and reiterated in the ...

Since their inception, private markets have been out of reach for most individual investors. The long-term time horizons, complexity, lack of liquidity and high fees, not to mention regulations aimed ...

Since the mid 1990s, public criticism of the Communist Party of Vietnam (CPV) government has expanded to involve thousands of citizens across the country. From this ferment of criticism numerous ...

Taiwan has been hailed as a textbook example of a successful transition to democracy. At the end of the civil war in 1949, Chiang Kai-shek, leader of the Kuomintang (KMT), lost to Mao Zedong's ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. March 28 this year was a date for the history books. It marked the first time the Nigerian presidential ...

What a difference an election makes. Malaysia’s 14th general elections on Wednesday were understood by all observers to be a close-fought battle between the long-ruling Barisan Nasional regime, the ...

Without technological constraints, more people from across Africa are free to innovate and create on the global stage; democratisation of energy is necessary to enable Africans to move into the ...

Somalia’s incumbent president, Mohamed Abdullahi Mohamed Michele Spatari/AFP via Getty Images Somalia has announced the postponement of its parliamentary elections until February 2021 and presidential ...