Articles Category: economics
The Buildings That Don’t Need Customers
04 April 2026 • Denton Wilde
A reflection on why empty commercial buildings in Santo may not be about trade at all, but about presence, leverage, and the slow logic of debt-funded infrastructure.
The Buildings That Should Have Stood
Denton Wilde
An examination of the Sunshine shopping centres in Luganville, the documented ownership link to Jinqui Chen, the damage seen after the March 30, 2026 earthquake, and the wider question of why so much foreign-funded concrete keeps rising in a small market.