GSBrief follows legislation, parliamentary records, budgets, central banks, ministries, trade flows, markets and official data to understand how political decisions move through economies, institutions and everyday life.
The NBK cut rates four times in 2026 from 18% to 16.25%. The SME lending rate is 20%. The weighted average business lending rate was 22.3% in November 2025. GSBrief tracks the gap between the policy rate and the commercial rate and asks who the architecture serves.
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State participation fell from 55% to 37%. GDP grew 7.7% in 2025. FDI surged 60%. GSBrief asks whether the second phase of reform can reach the sectors where it costs something.
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The September 2026 hike reactivates the mechanism that cost developing countries $1.4 trillion in debt service in 2023. GSBrief maps who pays and why.
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Africa holds 30% of global critical mineral reserves and earns 10% of revenues. Raw exports: $11bn. Full battery assembly potential: $1.1 trillion. GSBrief quantifies the gap.
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CBAM entered full force January 2026. Revenue flows to Brussels. Mozambique sends 97% of its aluminium to the EU. GSBrief examines who designed the rules and who pays.
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The base rate is 16.25%. Commercial business lending runs at 22.3%. GSBrief examines the gap and asks who the monetary architecture is actually serving.
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The FAO Food Price Index hit its highest level since 1990. Russia and Ukraine supplied 30% of global wheat. The countries that absorbed the food price shock were not the ones that had sanctioned anyone.
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A fuel price doubled overnight in an oil-producing region. 238 people died. The government called it a coup attempt. GSBrief reads the economic data and reaches a different conclusion.
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Central Asia carries 0.1% of all China-Europe sea cargo. The infrastructure is state-funded. GSBrief applies the Corridor Test and asks whether the investment creates productive capacity or a subsidised toll road.
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The Qosh Tepa Canal. A 285km diversion with no binding treaty framework. A sovereign water crisis developing in slow motion. GSBrief reads the hydrology data and examines the legal void.
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GSBrief reads the budget lines, procurement records and ownership data against the official reform announcements. The documents describe a different word for what is happening.
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Cobalt fell 74% from peak to trough. The DRC banned exports. Prices surged 160%. The quota restricts 2026 supply to less than half of 2024 production. GSBrief follows the money.
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Africa holds 61% of global manganese reserves, produces 17% of copper, supplies 14% of lithium. It processes almost none of it. GSBrief tracks three minerals across the same structural gap.
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Four rate cuts in 2026. SME lending at 20%. Weighted business lending rate at 22.3% in November 2025. GSBrief tracks the gap between the policy rate and the commercial rate.
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China, India, Central Asia and the economies reshaping the Asian century. The continent where the next global order is being negotiated.
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States, resources, trade, institutions and economic transformation. The continent with the fastest-growing labour force and the most unresolved debt architecture.
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Regulation, industry, fiscal policy, security and the external consequences of European decisions. What Brussels decides, the world absorbs.
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Washington, the dollar, industrial policy, trade and American economic power. The decisions made here determine the cost of borrowing everywhere else.
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Institutional Research →GSBrief undertakes commissioned reporting and analysis covering political economy, economics, trade, regulation and international affairs. We work from primary documents, official data and original research, with particular depth across Africa, Asia, Europe and the United States.
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