India’s Trade With Iran
India has been keen to expand into Iran, where an Indian firm is developing a deep-water port in the southern coastal town of Chabahar. New Delhi has invested nearly $34 billion in the project. By GPF Staff
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Atlas of Sustainable Development Goals 2018 : From World Development Indicators
The Atlas of Sustainable Development Goals 2018 is a visual guide to the trends, challenges and measurement issues related to each of the 17 Sustainable Development Goals. The Atlas features maps and data visualizations, primarily drawn from World Development Indicators (WDI) – the World Bank’s compilation of internationally comparable statistics …
Mapping Africa’s natural resources
Africa remains a key territory on the global map. Rich in oil and natural resources, the continent holds a strategic position. It is the world’s fastest-growing region for foreign direct investment, and it has approximately 30 percent of the earth’s remaining mineral resources. It’s home to more than 40 different …
The cost of human trafficking
The crime of human trafficking is linked to conflicts and wars. According to United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime, the ongoing refugee crisis and migrant smuggling have caused an increase in human trafficking across the world. Current estimates put the annual illegal profit from the trade at $150bn a year, only behind drug …
The five main projects of the Belt and Road Initiative
The Truth about Uyghur demographics and Han immigration in Xinjiang
The same accusation that Han people are demographically swamping Uyghurs has been repeated around over 1,000 times already and is widespread in the western and other media hostile to China (India etc.) Xinjiang is made out of two distinct regions which were not culturally or politically linked until China put …
Mapping Africa’s natural resources
Africa remains a key territory on the global map. Rich in oil and natural resources, the continent holds a strategic position. It is the world’s fastest-growing region for foreign direct investment, and it has approximately 30 percent of the earth’s remaining mineral resources. It’s home to more than 40 …
Africa’s Militant Islamic groups
Syrian refugee crisis in numbers
By Diana Al Rifai UNHCR says more than four million people have fled Syria since the conflict began. More than half of them are children.
Syrian Civil War Map
By Shakeeb Asrar A map of the Syrian civil war that shows who controls what after five years of fighting. After years of civil war, Syria is now a country that lies in ruins. Thousands of people have died, millions have fled. With no end of the war in sight, …