HANNOVER / WAM Global foreign direct investment (FDI) in developing countries in Africa, Asia, and Latin America is projected to plunge by 25 percent to 50 percent in 2020 due to the coronavirus (Covid-19) pandemic, according to the experts. “This will threaten the world’s ability to achieve the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development,” leading experts from United Nations Industrial Development ...

Bloomberg Tongwei Co halted output at a polysilicon factory in southwest China because of flooding, the latest blow to the solar supply chain that has seen rare cost increases this summer due to disruptions. Tongwei, the world’s No. 3 polysilicon producer last year, said it isn’t clear when the Sichuan province plant will restart, and didn’t say whether it sustained ...

It’s hard to think of anything more ominous than Russian President Vladimir Putin offering you his “assistance” so you can “resolve the problems” that are keeping you busy. But that’s what Putin has just promised to Alexander Lukashenko, the embattled and apparently fading dictator of Belarus. As the post-Soviet state, wedged awkwardly between the European Union and Nato on one ...