by The Fikiria Desk | Mar 29, 2020 | Property
A fund is an abstraction; a corridor is concrete, poured and maintained. Djibouti’s new sovereign wealth fund will ultimately be judged not on its prospectus but on what gets built, where, and whether it lasts. Established this week to consolidate state assets...
by The Fikiria Desk | Mar 29, 2020 | Intellectual
Every small state with a big location eventually asks the same question: how do you own an advantage that the world can route around? Geography is not a possession; it is a position, and positions can be lost to a new canal, a new port or a new corridor....
by The Fikiria Desk | Mar 29, 2020 | Money
Djibouti sits on one of the busiest shipping lanes on earth, yet for years the value created by its ports, its telecoms network and its strategic location was booked across a scattered set of state entities, each with its own accounts and its own logic. This week the...
by The Fikiria Desk | Mar 29, 2020 | Profiles
The easiest way to explain a national institution is to name a founder and end the story there. It is also the least useful. Djibouti’s establishment of a sovereign wealth fund this week, consolidating state assets and taking a long-term mandate across...
by The Fikiria Desk | Mar 29, 2020 | Content
The temptation with a national announcement is to report the ambition and file the story. The discipline is to ask what can actually be verified today, and to keep tomorrow’s outcomes out of today’s copy. Djibouti’s establishment of a sovereign...