Trend · rank 63 of 250

Development finance as influence

More providers are using loans, infrastructure and aid to win alignment, from the Belt and Road to Western and Gulf counter-offers, making influence depend on delivery quality and recipients' financing alternatives.

Information & InfluenceDiplomacy & influencedebt financegeoeconomicsinstitutions

Second pass: Carried forward from the first pass unchanged. Held by all three panel models.

Sensitivity and network position

Rank
63of 250
Sensitivity
10.8rank 94
Breadth
0of 20 scenarios High or above
PageRank
43.7rank 73
Eigenvector
14.5
Betweenness
29.2
Links
14trends at Moderate similarity or above
Composite
28.7

Attention over three years

How much this trend is read about on Wikipedia and searched for on Google, week by week, set against the typical trend in the list so that what moves every trend at once is taken out. 100 is this trend's own three-year average. The score measures public attention, which is not the same as the strength of the force: a trend can deepen unnoticed, and a news event can lift attention for a fortnight.

Now
94
Over a year
−7%Steady
Over three years
+8%
Peak
24415 Oct 2023
Sources
Bothagreement 0.45
Coverage
22languages · 62 nations

Trailing 4-week average. 100 is this trend’s three-year average.

By language

Wikipedia reading in each language edition where the trend’s pages are read enough to measure (22 of 28). Share is of all the readers counted.

LanguageShareNowOver a yearThree years
English53%71−25%
Chinese16%98+13%
Japanese8%86−22%
French4%104−5%
German4%88−8%
Russian4%71−36%
Spanish2%84+13%
Italian1%80−21%
Vietnamese1%57−43%
Portuguese1%80−36%
Arabic1%106−9%
Korean1%87−17%
Turkish1%75−26%
Persian1%87−41%
Dutch0%96−7%
Ukrainian0%68−39%
Hebrew0%89−10%
Bengali0%109−15%
Indonesian0%119−11%
Hindi0%67−55%
Swedish0%90−27%
Thai0%59−53%

By country

Google search interest over the three years, as a share of each country’s searching. 100 is the nation where interest is highest. The search terms are English, which favours countries that search in English.

Nepal

Uganda

China

Zimbabwe

Ethiopia

Singapore

Sri Lanka

Kenya

Ghana

South Korea

United States

United Kingdom

100

70

69

67

54

52

43

37

31

30

29

26

The 12 highest of 62 nations with a reading.

By region and G20 member

Attention to this trend inside each place, from Google searches made in its countries and Wikipedia reading in the languages mostly read there, averaged where both exist. Each line compares the trend with its own past in that place; the lines do not compare places.

Regions

PlaceRead fromNow90 days1 year3 yearsThree years
North AmericaGoogle in 2 countries + Wikipedia in English76−24%−18%−34%
EuropeGoogle in 5 countries + Wikipedia in German, French, Italian, Dutch, Swedish88−30%+5%−28%
ChinaGoogle in 1 country34−36%−58%−89%
Indo-PacificGoogle in 8 countries + Wikipedia in Japanese, Chinese, Korean, Vietnamese, Indonesian, Thai92−16%+8%−36%
South AsiaGoogle in 3 countries + Wikipedia in Hindi, Bengali84−12%−28%−26%
Gulf and Middle EastWikipedia in Persian, Arabic, Turkish, Hebrew90−31%−24%−21%
AfricaGoogle in 3 countries88−11%−18%−7%
Latin America and CaribbeanGoogle in 5 countries + Wikipedia in Spanish, Portuguese83−24%−16%−21%
Russia and EurasiaGoogle in 1 country + Wikipedia in Russian, Ukrainian61−39%−2%−54%

G20 members

PlaceRead fromNow90 days1 year3 yearsThree years
ArgentinaGoogle97−24%+7%−20%
AustraliaGoogle89−17%−14%−25%
BrazilGoogle + Wikipedia in Portuguese85−14%−24%−3%
CanadaGoogle85−22%+4%−21%
ChinaGoogle34−36%−58%−89%
FranceGoogle + Wikipedia in French82−41%−5%−17%
GermanyGoogle + Wikipedia in German89−20%+24%−38%
IndiaGoogle + Wikipedia in Hindi, Bengali85−9%−28%−26%
IndonesiaGoogle + Wikipedia in Indonesian106−16%+5%−20%
ItalyGoogle + Wikipedia in Italian88−40%+15%−36%
JapanGoogle + Wikipedia in Japanese88−20%+1%−52%
South KoreaGoogle + Wikipedia in Korean97−15%+18%−13%
MexicoGoogle73−31%−29%−25%
RussiaWikipedia in Russian71−24%−36%−51%
South AfricaGoogle93−7%−16%+5%
TürkiyeWikipedia in Turkish75−29%−26%−37%
United KingdomGoogle96+9%+8%−11%
United StatesGoogle + Wikipedia in English75−24%−20%−35%

Relation to each scenario

A trend relates to a scenario when it changes how likely the scenario is, how hard it lands, or is itself sharply changed by it. Each score is the median of three scores given separately by the members of the model panel.

RelationScenarioFamily
3 · ModerateA creditor agreement releases fiscal capacity S11 ↗Economic and trade
3 · ModerateA verified Middle East settlement restores access S14 ↗Geopolitical and security
2 · LowCritical trade divides into rival blocs S01Economic and trade
2 · LowA cross-regional market access compact redirects investment S12 ↗Economic and trade
1 · Very lowA global funding seizure reaches sovereign balance sheets S02Economic and trade
1 · Very lowTwo breadbasket failures trigger a food availability crisis S06Energy, climate and resources
1 · Very lowA validated farming package raises water-efficient output S16 ↗Energy, climate and resources
0 · Not relatedA regional war closes a globally important sea route S03Geopolitical and security
0 · Not relatedHybrid coercion ends in an infrastructure blackout S04Geopolitical and security
0 · Not relatedA disputed transfer of power breaks effective government S05Geopolitical and security
0 · Not relatedA major disaster disables the national economic core S07Energy, climate and resources
0 · Not relatedAn AI deployment step causes abrupt labour displacement S08Technology and infrastructure
0 · Not relatedA cryptographic breakthrough invalidates digital trust S09Technology and infrastructure
0 · Not relatedA novel respiratory pathogen exceeds health surge capacity S10Health
0 · Not relatedA great-power agreement lowers economic security barriers S13 ↗Geopolitical and security
0 · Not relatedCheap firm clean power becomes available at scale S15 ↗Energy, climate and resources
0 · Not relatedAI-directed research produces a reproducible discovery step S17 ↗Technology and infrastructure
0 · Not relatedA public service platform reaches inclusive operation S18 ↗Technology and infrastructure
0 · Not relatedAffordable preventive treatments reduce chronic illness S19 ↗Health
0 · Not relatedA live outbreak proves rapid distributed pandemic defence S20 ↗Health

Similarity = 0.3 × shared tags (Jaccard) + 0.3 × likeness of scenario profiles (cosine) + 0.3 × likeness of names and descriptions (TF-IDF cosine) + 0.1 if in the same capability domain, cut into seven levels at 0.12, 0.22, 0.33, 0.45, 0.58, 0.72. Shown at Moderate and above.

SimilarityTrendThemeRank
4 · HighDiplomatic capacity under strainDiplomacy & influence16
4 · HighMiddle-power diplomatic leverageDiplomacy & influence36
4 · HighCredibility of external commitmentsDiplomacy & influence65
4 · HighGlobal South coalitionsDiplomacy & influence72
4 · HighWeakening multilateral institutionsDiplomacy & influence77
4 · HighSovereign creditor fragmentationMoney & debt88
3 · ModerateIllicit finance & beneficial ownershipState capacity & governance20
3 · ModerateConcessional finance scarcityMoney & debt32
3 · ModerateTax base erosion & coordinationMoney & debt41
3 · ModerateDollar dependence & payment fragmentationMoney & debt45
3 · ModerateTechnical standards competitionDiplomacy & influence50
3 · ModerateNon-bank finance growthMoney & debt82
3 · ModerateSovereign wealth & state capitalTrade, industry & supply chains108
3 · ModerateSoft power & cultural influenceDiplomacy & influence234