The outbreak of the Coronavirus crisis at the end of 2019 has led to a surprise acceleration and expansion of the HSR and a boom in studies of this topic by global financial press, think tanks and universities. The team from China Investment Research (CIR), Grisons Peak, a London based...

In 2021, the G20 committed to reallocate USD 100 billion of the International Monetary Fund's (IMF) recent allocation of Special Drawing Rights (SDRs) to low-income and vulnerable middle-income countries. However, most of these donations have been made to the IMF's Poverty Reduction and Growth...

Our previous report Health Silk Road 2020: A Bridge to the Future for Health to All tracked the rapid development of the Health Silk Road. The year 2020 concluded with two Chinese vaccines being tested throughout 15 countries. In this study, we continue to track the H1 2021 development of the...

This study investigates the moisture damage mechanism and material selection of hot-mix asphalt (HMA) with amine-based liquid antistripping agent (ASA). The surface free energy (SFE) of virgin and ASA modified asphalts and five aggregates with different acidities were measured, yielding the...