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14 Articles · March 2026
The Meridian Dossier
The Circular Economy of Deception
Iran sells its oil at a discount. China refines it and ships the finished product to Western markets. The West calls this sanctions. Everyone knows what it actually is.
The Meridian Dossier
The New Colonialism: Digital Chains and Disposable Soldiers
The 19th-century coloniser wanted your land. The 21st-century coloniser wants your data and your life. How the 2026 extraction economy is reshaping the Global South.
Lead Analysis
The Great Insurance Divorce: How the Sovereign Shield Broke London's Grip
Lloyd's walked away. The BRICS+ Sovereign Shield stepped in. Three centuries of London's maritime dominance ended not with a battle, but with a balance sheet.
Investigative Macroeconomics
The Liquidity Trap: How War Risk is Dismantling the Global Banking Grid
From frozen UK mortgage markets to Mauritius's offshore sector under pressure, the 2026 war risk premium is hitting places the headlines never reach.
Global Industrial Strategy
The Resource Rebellion: Why Africa's Export Bans Are a Declaration of Industrial Sovereignty
Zimbabwe froze all raw mineral exports. The DRC halved its cobalt quota. This is not a supply disruption. It is the Global South rewriting the terms of industrialisation.
Asia-Pacific Industrial Desk
The Nickel Neutrality Trap: Jakarta's High-Stakes Gamble Between Beijing and Washington
Indonesia controls 65% of global nickel. China refines 75% of it. America needs it clean. Jakarta is caught between the two most powerful economies on earth.
Special Investigative Report
The Mauritius Fiscal Trap: Inside the MUR 1.1 Billion Treasury Crisis
The entire civil service benefit budget ran out in November. Half the PRB award deferred. Public debt at 87.4% of GDP. The numbers tell a story the press releases do not.
Special Investigative Report
The Mauritius Mirage: How the IMF is Subsidising a Sovereign Ponzi Scheme
Rs 180bn printed off balance sheet. Pension funds depleted. AG appointed from the PM's personal legal team. The IMF said nothing. The budget speech said everything.
Global Finance
Institutionalising the Shield: The NDB and the Rise of a Post-Dollar Credit Grid
How the New Development Bank is expanding local-currency lending and building a parallel development finance architecture across the Global South.
Global Finance
The e-Rupee Inversion: Why the Sovereign Shield Could Challenge the Dollar's Future
How India's digital rupee and emerging sovereign payment networks could reshape global trade settlement and the architecture of dollar dominance.
War Economy Analysis
The Shadow Liquidity of War: The Dark Fleet and the Arabian Sea Insurance Bypass
How shadow tanker fleets, sovereign insurance pools and alternative payment rails are sustaining sanctioned oil trade beyond Western financial control.
March 2026 Edition
India 2.0: Power or Promise?
Volume 2, Issue 3 · March 2026. India stands at a structural inflection point. Industrial ambition, semiconductor investment, defence manufacturing and fiscal discipline converge in a defining test.
Special Investigative Report
South Africa's 60% Time-Bomb: The Licensing Chokehold
The IMF confirmed on March 11 what South Africa's youth already live. 57% unemployed. The regulatory burden has doubled since 2007. The ANC built the machine. The Business Licensing Bill is the last chance to dismantle it.
Legislative Dispatch
The Educational Exit: Why Mauritius Must Legalise the Home-Schooling Revolution
Rs 20.5bn spent. 97% on salaries. Only 44.5% of students graduate. The 3-credit trap parks a generation. 50 countries have legalised the exit. Mauritius must too.
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