Author: Sergio Pearson

Spreadsheets are open in government offices and boardrooms everywhere, and they’re screaming for cuts. Inflation chews through procurement budgets, tax revenues look shaky, and the

When a country hits a wall on buying foreign tech, the first reaction tends to be doom and gloom. The logic seems airtight: without access

Introduction: Why Parallel Imports Matter Now Sanctions redraw trade maps overnight. For any business operating in or with a sanctioned economy, the old supply chains

Governments slap restrictions on technology transfer, and the knee-jerk reaction is usually doom and gloom. Cut off the flow of foreign know-how, the thinking goes,

Sanctions redraw the trade map overnight. Textbook supply and demand stop making sense. Instead, a shadow economy takes hold—brokers, rerouted shipments, and price tags that

State-owned enterprises don’t play by the same rulebook. When they step into markets where private companies face tight restrictions—defense, energy, telecoms—they don’t just compete. They

State-owned enterprises sit in a strange spot. They aren’t pure businesses, and they aren’t just government offices dressed up in corporate clothes. They hover somewhere