| 22-May-2021
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Millions of African-Americans remain stuck |
They are poorer, less likely to own homes and more likely to be imprisoned than whites
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| 22-May-2021
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America is becoming less racist but more divided by racism |
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| 3-Jun-2021
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Time to go |
Brazil’s future depends on the outcome of the 2022 election
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| 3-Jun-2021
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Of Bibles and ballots |
Evangelical churches are political players in Brazil
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| 3-Jun-2021
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In need of reform |
Brasília is full of new politicians and old ideas
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| 3-Jun-2021
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Money trees |
The Amazon and its residents need sustainable development
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| 3-Jun-2021
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Sliding back |
Revelations of graft have fuelled anti-establishmentism
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| 3-Jun-2021
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A dream deferred |
After a generation of progress, social mobility is slowing in Brazil
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| 3-Jun-2021
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The captain and his country |
Brazil is backsliding. Politicians, businesses and voters must act before it is too late, says Sarah Maslin
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| 23-Jun-2021
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A future, but with Chinese characteristics |
Communist Party leaders do have dreams other than just remaining in power. But achieving communism is no longer really one of them
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| 23-Jun-2021
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As Chinese citizens head overseas, the party does likewise |
With China’s global footprint expanding everywhere, so is the Communist Party’s—not always openly
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| 23-Jun-2021
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Getting into the vanguard of the Chinese elite |
To well-educated Chinese, Communist Party membership is worth fighting for, even if it is not easy to attain
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| 23-Jun-2021
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The party is eager to expand its influence within business |
In private workplaces, the Communist Party—once almost non-existent—is taking root once again
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| 23-Jun-2021
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Busybodies, backed by AI, are restoring the party’s visibility |
How Communist Party members help to keep a close eye on Chinese citizens—and on each other
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| 23-Jun-2021
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Trying to heal the party’s wounds |
The party Xi Jinping inherited had been torn apart by infighting. He now wants to ensure that no one in the party defies him
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| 23-Jun-2021
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The push to revamp the Chinese Communist Party for the next 100 years |
The world’s most powerful political party was founded a century ago. James Miles says it is projecting ever greater confidence, while fortifying itself against collapse
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| 24-Aug-2021
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Most Arab countries now focus on domestic concerns, not unity |
But the presence of foreign powers is still dearly felt
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| 24-Aug-2021
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Egypt is again under military rule, but Sisi lacks Nasser’s appeal |
The military dictatorship is back, stronger than ever but also less ideological
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| 24-Aug-2021
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The Arab League has done little for its members in nearly 70 years |
It was among the first post-war multilateral bodies, and one of the least useful
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| 24-Aug-2021
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The Palestinian cause no longer binds the Arab world |
Their struggle against Israel still looms large, but for Arab governments it has outlived its purpose
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| 24-Aug-2021
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Across the Arab world, Islamists’ brief stints in power have failed |
They have proved out of touch with those they claimed to support
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| 24-Aug-2021
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Iran scores a pyrrhic victory in its cold war with Saudi Arabia |
Its allies are impoverished
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| 24-Aug-2021
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Why the Arab world has an identity crisis |
The region is mired in conflict and collapse
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| 20-Sep-2021
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Germany needs a reforming government |
Unfortunately, it may not get one
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| 20-Sep-2021
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The world needs a more active Germany |
A passive (and pacifist) country considers a more active role
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| 20-Sep-2021
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The attitudes of Germany’s young |
New German voters have no memory of life before Mrs Merkel
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| 20-Sep-2021
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The European Union will badly miss Angela Merkel |
There is no obvious replacement for the chancellor
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| 20-Sep-2021
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Parts of Germany are desperate for more people |
Coping with ageing and shrinking populations is hardest in the east
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| 20-Sep-2021
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A troubled road lies ahead for German carmakers |
The all-powerful automotive sector faces a challenging future
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| 20-Sep-2021
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Germany’s urgent need for greater public investment |
Necessary new infrastructure is not being built
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| 20-Sep-2021
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After Merkel |
Angela Merkel’s departure will leave a big hole in Germany—and much for her successor to do, says Tom Nuttall
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| 6-Oct-2021
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A changed world |
International commerce needs firmer underpinnings
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| 6-Oct-2021
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Making trade greener |
When environmental protection turns into trade protection
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| 6-Oct-2021
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The urge to protect |
How trade restrictions are being used as a tool to protect human rights
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| 6-Oct-2021
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In search of resilience |
The quest for resilience involves reaching for facts, friends and fortification
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| 6-Oct-2021
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A fraying system |
In global trade, power increasingly trumps rules
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| 6-Oct-2021
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The new order of trade |
Trade has been about growth and efficiency. Now other goals are competing for attention, says Soumaya Keynes
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| 27-Oct-2021
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Governing the atmosphere |
Technologies which might stabilise the climate could do the reverse to international relations
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| 27-Oct-2021
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Why the world needs negative emissions |
If negative emissions are to play a role in policy much more needs to be done to make them practically achievable
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| 27-Oct-2021
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The economics of the climate |
Energy choices shape economies—and could reshape them
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| 27-Oct-2021
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How Asia is crucial in the battle against climate change |
Whether the climate can ever be stabilised depends largely on Asia
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| 27-Oct-2021
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What the Paris agreement of 2015 meant |
Replacing fossil fuels is becoming easier. But temperatures are still likely to rise too far
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| 27-Oct-2021
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The agenda for the COP 26 summit |
There has never been a collective human endeavour more ambitious than stabilising the climate. In this special report our journalists assess what it will take to meet the historic goals agreed on in Paris six years ago
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| 7-Dec-2021
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The future could be brighter |
It could be a lot better with younger and more dynamic political leaders
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| 7-Dec-2021
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Letting more migrants in by stealth |
From a low base, immigration is growing quite fast
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| 7-Dec-2021
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Japan’s economy is stronger than many realise |
Not bad, but could be better
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| 7-Dec-2021
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An ageing country shows others how to manage |
Japan has aged faster than anywhere else, but it is learning how to cope
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| 7-Dec-2021
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The big city that is also pleasant to live in |
Surprisingly, the world’s biggest city is also one of its most liveable
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| 7-Dec-2021
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Japan has a chequered record on climate change |
Prepared for disaster, unprepared for climate change
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| 7-Dec-2021
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Why Japan needs more forceful defence |
The strong case for more active and interventionist security and defence policies
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| 7-Dec-2021
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A country that is on the front line |
Japan offers the world examples to follow as well as ones not to. It is as relevant as ever, argues Noah Sneider
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| 10-Jan-2022
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However justified, more government intervention risks being counterproductive |
It is time to reassert the case for less state intrusion
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| 10-Jan-2022
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The long trend of falling corporate taxes is being reversed |
After falling for decades, taxes on companies are rising again
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| 10-Jan-2022
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Enthusiasm for regulation, often in areas like the climate, shows no sign of flagging |
Red tape continues to spread inexorably
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| 10-Jan-2022
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The growing demand for more vigorous antitrust action |
Greater concentration of market power is leading to a trustbusting revival
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| 10-Jan-2022
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Many countries are seeing a revival of industrial policy |
A previously discredited approach has found new believers
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| 10-Jan-2022
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Governments’ widespread new fondness for interventionism |
After a long liberalising era, the state has bounced back. That is not a good thing, argues Jan Piotrowski
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| 23-Feb-2022
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Private markets are less rewarding than they used to be |
The future may well be bright. It will certainly be less high-octane
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| 23-Feb-2022
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Regulators have private markets in their sights |
Criticism of private equity is overdone. That won’t stop regulators giving it a harder time
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| 23-Feb-2022
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More borrowers turn to private markets for credit |
Asset managers rush in where banks fear to tread, transforming a formerly niche market
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| 23-Feb-2022
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Investors rely more and more on higher returns from private markets |
The institutional investors whose capital fuels private markets are growing more sophisticated. But picking winners gets no easier
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| 23-Feb-2022
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Alternative fund managers are increasingly mainstream |
But many “artisanal” PE firms are touting themselves as specialists
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| 23-Feb-2022
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Private markets have grown exponentially |
The past decade has been a golden one for private financial markets. As they become bigger they are being dramatically reshaped, says Matthew Valencia
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| 30-Mar-2022
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What Florida can teach America |
Which side of paradise?
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| 30-Mar-2022
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Florida faces a triple threat to its environment |
The environment is Florida’s biggest attraction, but also its biggest vulnerability
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| 30-Mar-2022
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Two elections will attract national interest |
Two races to watch in 2022
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| 30-Mar-2022
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The colour purple |
Is Florida still a swing state—or a Republican one?
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| 30-Mar-2022
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A peninsula that makes waves in policy formation |
Florida has a history as a policy laboratory
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| 30-Mar-2022
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The bid to make Florida’s most famous city a tech hub |
An ambitious mayor is trying to transform Miami’s appeal
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| 30-Mar-2022
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The economy sees repeated boom and bust cycles |
Rapid growth is heating up the Sunshine State
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| 30-Mar-2022
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Like America, the Sunshine State also rises |
Florida is booming and becoming more important, with big consequences for America, says Alexandra Suich Bass
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| 20-Apr-2022
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The curse of being too competent |
The temptation to heap jobs on central banks must be resisted
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| 20-Apr-2022
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When central banks face sanctions |
Central banks must grapple with geopolitics, too
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| 20-Apr-2022
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How central banks are moving into e-money |
Designing a digital currency that works—but not too well
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| 20-Apr-2022
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The wish to respond to climate change |
How green can central banking get?
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| 20-Apr-2022
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When central banks become one-stop policy shops |
Central banks are under pressure to cure social ills
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| 20-Apr-2022
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The perils of expanded balance-sheets |
The power—and the limits—of central banks’ balance-sheets
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| 20-Apr-2022
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The danger of excessive distraction |
Central banks are under attack for failing to stop inflation. That partly reflects being given too many other jobs to do, argues Rachana Shanbhogue
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| 20-May-2022
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Countering China in Africa |
The West must try harder to offer African countries alternatives to China
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| 20-May-2022
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Ace of bases |
China is on a path to becoming a global military power; that path goes through Africa
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| 20-May-2022
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China, meet Fourth Estate |
China is working hard to shape public opinion in Africa, but its more lasting impact could be on the infrastructure of media itself
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| 20-May-2022
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The price of friendship |
China has much to offer African governments, but it also wants much in return
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| 20-May-2022
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How Chinese firms have changed Africa |
Chinese companies have made their mark on the African continent, in ways good and bad
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| 20-May-2022
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Chinese loans and investment in infrastructure have been huge |
An era of big loans and big projects is coming to an end. How did it change Africa?
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| 20-May-2022
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The Chinese-African relationship is important to both sides, but also unbalanced |
If the West wants to counter China’s role in Africa it first must understand it
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| 28-May-2022
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China in Africa |
To counter China’s growing role in Africa the West must first understand it, say Gady Epstein and John McDermott
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| 16-Jun-2022
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The urgent need to reform political systems |
Politics needs to be rebuilt from the ground up
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| 16-Jun-2022
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The rival influences of the United States and China |
A region divided against itself
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| 16-Jun-2022
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The high cost of schools closed by covid |
Making up for Latin America’s lengthy school closures
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| 16-Jun-2022
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The deficiencies of the Latin American state loom large |
Enter the political demolition squads
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| 16-Jun-2022
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A region that seems unable to reach its potential |
How can Latin America become more productive?
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| 16-Jun-2022
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Latin American society is modernising, mostly for the better |
Universal policies are more important than group rights
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| 16-Jun-2022
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A region caught between stagnation and angry street protests |
Latin America is stuck in a development trap, argues Michael Reid
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| 18-Jun-2022
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Latin America |
Latin America is stuck between stagnation and street protest, argues Michael Reid
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| 21-Jul-2022
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Measure less, but better |
It’s the environment, stupid
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| 21-Jul-2022
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Missionary creep |
New disclosure rules aim to better measure climate risks. Is that even possible?
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| 21-Jul-2022
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The signal and the noise |
Measurement of ESG data needs a big overhaul
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| 21-Jul-2022
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Internalising the externalities |
Can firms be made accountable for their carbon emissions?
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| 21-Jul-2022
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The warm glow |
It’s a myth that ESG investments inevitably outperform. You can’t have it all
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| 21-Jul-2022
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How to charge more |
Fees for managing ESG funds tend to be higher than for non-ESG ones
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| 21-Jul-2022
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The saviour complex |
It’s time to get real about what ESG can—and cannot—achieve
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| 21-Jul-2022
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A broken system needs urgent repairs |
The environmental, social and governance (ESG) approach to investment is broken. It needs to be streamlined and stripped of sanctimoniousness, argues Henry Tricks
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| 23-Jul-2022
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ESG investing |
The environmental, social and governance (ESG) approach to investment is broken. It needs to be streamlined and stripped of sanctimoniousness, argues Henry Tricks
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| 12-Sep-2022
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Stopping the spiral of murder and violent crime |
America has relied too long on a toxic combination of over- and under-policing
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| 12-Sep-2022
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How softer non-policing strategies might help |
The hopes of, and limits to, non-policing anti-violence strategies
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| 12-Sep-2022
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The public wants to refund, not defund, the police |
Progressive prosecutors are losing ground across America
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| 12-Sep-2022
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How Baltimore became a sad harbinger of the future |
How an east-coast city gave warning of what would come
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| 12-Sep-2022
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America is unusually bad at clearing up homicides |
Why are inner-city murders so hard to solve?
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| 12-Sep-2022
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American exceptionalism exists, but other countries also have problems |
The rise in violent crime in America is almost unique, but not wholly
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| 12-Sep-2022
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An anatomy of hard times in the city |
What underlies inner-city murders in America
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| 12-Sep-2022
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How to stop the killing |
After a long decline, violent crime in America is rising again. In this special report Daniel Knowles looks at what can be done
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| 17-Sep-2022
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Violent crime in America |
After a long decline, violent crime in America is rising again. Daniel Knowles looks at what can be done
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| 5-Oct-2022
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Policymakers are likely to jettison their 2% inflation targets |
Some by choice, some by accident
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| 5-Oct-2022
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The inflation problem will get better before it gets worse |
When current disruptions recede, the underlying rate of inflation will remain higher than before the pandemic
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| 5-Oct-2022
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Adding up the fiscal drag from ageing, energy and defence |
The bill for the future looms ever larger
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| 5-Oct-2022
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The energy transition will be expensive |
But not catastrophically so
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| 5-Oct-2022
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Is the world economy in a debt trap? |
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| 5-Oct-2022
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Elderly populations mean more government spending |
They also mean low interest rates
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| 5-Oct-2022
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Inflation and rising demands on governments are changing economic policy |
It amounts to an upending of the previous regime, says Henry Curr
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| 8-Oct-2022
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Regime change |
Surging inflation and rising demands on governments have brought a pivotal moment for economic policy, says Henry Curr
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| 10-Oct-2022
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For Western democracies, the price of avoiding a clash with China is rising |
It is clear that hard choices loom
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| 10-Oct-2022
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China has chilling plans for governing Taiwan |
There may be few painless options left
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| 10-Oct-2022
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Why America and Europe fret about China turning inwards |
China increasingly fears being overly dependent on the world
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| 10-Oct-2022
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China is exerting greater power across Asia—and beyond |
It has become a master of political and economic leverage
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| 10-Oct-2022
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To show that it can follow global rules, China built its own multilateral institution |
But what is the point of the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank?
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| 10-Oct-2022
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China seeks a world order that defers to states and their rulers |
Xi Jinping wants less global interventionism
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| 10-Oct-2022
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China wants to change, or break, a world order set by others |
It may yet succeed, says David Rennie
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| 15-Oct-2022
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The world divided |
China wants to change, or break, a world order set by others. It may yet succeed, says David Rennie
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| 1-Nov-2022
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The rich world is wrong to think that climate impacts in poor countries don’t matter |
There is a compelling moral case for rich countries to do more to help poor ones adapt
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| 1-Nov-2022
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Public money must pave the way for private investment in climate-change adaptation |
Otherwise the world will be poorly served
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| 1-Nov-2022
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The business of businesses is climate-change adaptation |
Big ones are waking up to the fact
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| 1-Nov-2022
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A lot can be done to adapt farming to near-term climate change |
But more is still needed
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| 1-Nov-2022
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Small climate projects cannot take the place of all large ones |
But they can achieve a lot if coordinated
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| 1-Nov-2022
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Money and moderately good governance make climate-change adaptation easier |
Unfortunately they are not in abundant supply
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| 1-Nov-2022
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The world has to adapt to the climate change it will not avoid |
And poor countries will need help to do so
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| 5-Nov-2022
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The challenge of the age |
Adapting to climate change is urgent, feasible and woefully underfunded, argues Edward McBride
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| 5-Dec-2022
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Italy needs to learn from other countries on structural changes |
It cannot afford to retreat from them as it has before
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| 5-Dec-2022
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Italy is trying to deal with its demographic decline |
Some deserted southern towns are taking innovative approaches
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| 5-Dec-2022
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Political instability in Italy has always affected reform |
Can Giorgia Meloni stay in power long enough to buck the trend?
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| 5-Dec-2022
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Southern Italy needs private enterprise and infrastructure |
It does not just need more public money
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| 5-Dec-2022
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Italy’s protected sectors need exposure to more competition |
Their approach to management and the labour market need a shake-up, too
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| 5-Dec-2022
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Why is Italy’s public-debt burden so big? |
It is the denominator, not the numerator, that is the real problem
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| 5-Dec-2022
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External shocks have hit the Italian economy hard |
They have also exacerbated internal weaknesses
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| 5-Dec-2022
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Italy’s new government needs to make deep economic reforms |
But Giorgia Meloni may not have the desire or the experience to make them, says John Peet
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| 10-Dec-2022
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Renovation required |
Giorgia Meloni’s new government must make deep reforms if Italy is to regain its lost vitality, argues John Peet
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| 16-Jan-2023
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Turkey is still just a democracy, but it is not certain to remain that way |
The election will test the country’s democratic credentials
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| 16-Jan-2023
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The Turkish opposition faces big obstacles to winning the election |
They remain rudderless
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| 16-Jan-2023
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Turkey has a newly confrontational foreign policy |
The country has turned into an awkward ally for the West
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Turkey has given up promoting political Islam abroad |
Recep Tayyip Erdogan is mending fences with his Arab neighbours
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| 16-Jan-2023
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| 16-Jan-2023
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Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s relatives are becoming increasingly powerful |
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| 16-Jan-2023
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The Turkish economy is in pressing need of reform and repair |
A bizarre monetary policy has left an economy in need of urgent repair
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| 16-Jan-2023
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Turkey faces a crucial election this summer |
Approaching its centenary, the country prepares for an election that could decide its future as a democracy, argues Piotr Zalewski
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| 21-Jan-2023
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Approaching its centenary, Turkey faces an election that could decide its future as a democracy, argues Piotr Zalewski
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Taiwan desperately needs support from the world |
A vibrant small democracy needs protection from a big autocracy
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| 6-Mar-2023
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Taiwanese politics faces a crucial election in early 2024 |
The presidential election will do much to decide Taiwan’s future
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| 6-Mar-2023
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Taiwan needs a new defence strategy to deal with China |
Taiwan needs to prioritise becoming a porcupine, but ambiguity clouds its strategic decisions
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| 6-Mar-2023
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The battle with China is psychological as much as physical |
The importance of psychology in resisting China
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| 6-Mar-2023
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Taiwan’s dominance of the chip industry makes it more important |
No industry matters more to Taiwan than chipmaking
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| 6-Mar-2023
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It is time to divert Taiwan’s trade and investment from China |
Taiwan’s economy is strong, but it needs to reduce its dependence on China
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| 6-Mar-2023
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Taiwan is a vital island that is under serious threat |
Taiwan’s fate will, ultimately, be decided by the battle-readiness of its people, says Alice Su
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| 11-Mar-2023
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Taiwan’s fate will, ultimately, be decided by the battle-readiness of its people, says Alice Su
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| 20-Mar-2023
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How digital gaming spreads far and wide |
Video games are becoming platforms for more than play
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| 20-Mar-2023
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The rise of user-created video games |
Do-it-yourself games are taking off just as DIY video did
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| 20-Mar-2023
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Video games, power and diplomacy |
Gaming is a growing source of soft power, influence—and perhaps espionage
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| 20-Mar-2023
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Complexities of moderating and classifying video games |
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| 20-Mar-2023
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The rise and rise of e-sports |
Broadcasting gameplay has become a big business
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| 20-Mar-2023
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Moviemaking and gamemaking are converging |
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| 20-Mar-2023
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Battles over streaming break out for video games |
Streaming subscriptions have revolutionised music and television. What will they do to games?
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| 20-Mar-2023
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Ready, player four billion: the rise of video games |
As video games move from teenage distraction to universal pastime they are following the path of other mass media, says Tom Wainwright
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| 25-Mar-2023
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As video games move from teenage distraction to universal pastime they are following the same path as other mass media, says Tom Wainwright
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| 3-Apr-2023
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Knowing more about genes should revolutionise the treatment of disease
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| 14-Oct-2024
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Why the American stockmarket reigns supreme |
Lower returns are coming, but they should continue to be world-beating
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| 14-Oct-2024
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The shale revolution helped make America’s economy great |
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| 14-Oct-2024
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China’s yuan is nowhere close to displacing the greenback |
The only way the dollar will lose its supreme role is at America’s own hand
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| 14-Oct-2024
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American productivity still leads the world |
Innovation and a vibrant tech sector continue to give America a competitive edge
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| 14-Oct-2024
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What can stop the American economy now? |
Toxic politics could derail America’s economic boom. The world should hope it does not
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| 14-Oct-2024
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Is higher inequality the price America pays for faster growth? |
A look at the potential downsides of outperformance
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| 14-Oct-2024
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The American economy has left other rich countries in the dust |
Expect that to continue
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| 3-Apr-2023
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How genes work |
A quick guide to life’s operating system
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| 3-Apr-2023
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The human genome has been sequenced. The question now, says Geoffrey Carr, is what next?
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| 3-Apr-2023
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Only connect |
Genomics is revealing the unity and the diversity of life. Both are essential to the exploitation of the new knowledge
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| 3-Apr-2023
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Who owns your genes? |
Not all the questions raised by genomics are scientific ones
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| 3-Apr-2023
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The proper study of mankind |
Practical applications are all well and good. But genomics can shed light on the nature of humanity, too
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| 14-Apr-2023
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A changing car industry should result in more choice and better motoring |
The future may be hard for some, but for others it could be as bright as a shiny new car
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| 14-Apr-2023
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Car firms are trying out new ways to sell mobility |
The days when cars were sold at arm’s length through dealerships is ending
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| 14-Apr-2023
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How geopolitical tensions could disrupt the global car industry |
The unhelpful fallout from Sino-American squabbles
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| 14-Apr-2023
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Autonomous vehicles are coming, but slowly |
The next challenge for legacy firms is to adapt to autonomy
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| 14-Apr-2023
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China is leading the challenge to incumbent carmakers |
The legacy industry’s greatest assets are not worth as much as in the past
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| 14-Apr-2023
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It is getting easier for new entrants to make cars |
Electrification is lowering the industry’s daunting barriers to entry
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| 14-Apr-2023
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The future lies with electric vehicles |
The car industry is electrifying rapidly and irrevocably
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| 14-Apr-2023
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Everything about carmaking is changing at once |
The industry must reinvent itself to keep pace, says Simon Wright
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| 14-Apr-2023
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Software is now as important as hardware in cars |
It is easier for a tech firm to make cars than a carmaker to become a tech company
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| 22-Apr-2023
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A difficult new world |
Everything about carmaking is changing at once. The industry must reinvent itself to keep pace, says Simon Wright
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| 15-May-2023
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There are risks but also big potential benefits from digital payments |
Digital finance has enormous promise but introduces novel risks
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| 15-May-2023
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Could digital-payments systems help unseat the dollar? |
Might digital finance reduce the world’s dependence on the dollar?
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| 15-May-2023
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Central-bank digital currencies are talked about more than coming to fruition |
The roll-out of central-bank digital currencies is proving slower than expected
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| 15-May-2023
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The promise of crypto has not lived up to its initial excitement |
A crypto-finance revolution looks further off than ever
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| 15-May-2023
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As payments systems go digital, they are changing global finance |
The fight over payments systems is hotting up around the world. There may be surprising winners, says Arjun Ramani
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| 15-May-2023
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The old bank/card model is still entrenched in the rich world |
Banks and card networks have proved remarkably resilient in the face of digital competition
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| 15-May-2023
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A digital payments revolution in India |
How emerging economies from India to Brazil built alternative payments models
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| 16-May-2023
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| 16-May-2023
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Video: insights from the author |
Inside our correspondent’s investigation
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| 20-May-2023
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Cashless talk |
The fight over payments systems is hotting up around the world. There may be surprising winners, says Arjun Ramani
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| 3-Jul-2023
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Western armies are learning a lot from the war in Ukraine |
Ukraine is teaching armies to think, train and plan differently
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| 3-Jul-2023
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How oceans became new technological battlefields |
Ukraine has repelled the Black Sea Fleet. But naval drones may not be enough to defeat it
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| 3-Jul-2023
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How Ukraine’s enemy is also learning lessons, albeit slowly |
Russia is also absorbing lessons from the war
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| 3-Jul-2023
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Technology is deepening civilian involvement in war |
Another chapter in our special report on the future of warfare considers the big legal questions raised by the fusion of civilian and military activity
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| 3-Jul-2023
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Why logistics are too important to be left to the generals |
Russia’s invasion shows how war can hinge on logistics
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| 3-Jul-2023
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The latest in the battle of jamming with electronic beams |
Jamming is knocking drones and missiles out of the sky
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| 3-Jul-2023
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The war in Ukraine shows how technology is changing the battlefield |
But mass still counts, argues Shashank Joshi in the first of seven chapters of a special report on the future of warfare
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| 3-Jul-2023
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Video: How we studied the lessons of Ukraine |
Inside our correspondent’s investigation into the future of war
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| 4-Jul-2023
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| 8-Jul-2023
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Battlefield lessons |
The war shows how technology is changing the battlefield. But mass still counts, argues Shashank Joshi
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| 2-Oct-2023
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| 2-Oct-2023
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New industrial policies will not help economic stability |
Globalisation has not been perfect but it has been effective
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| 2-Oct-2023
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Green protectionism comes with big risks |
Some analysts worry that new laws could slow the green transition
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| 2-Oct-2023
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New industrial policies will make the world more unequal |
Workers in the developing world will especially lose out
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| 2-Oct-2023
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“Homeland economics” will make the world poorer |
Industrial policy and protectionism could endanger trade, without making Western economies safer
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| 2-Oct-2023
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Attempts to make supply chains “resilient” are likely to fail |
And they are likely to be costly
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| 2-Oct-2023
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Governments across the world are discovering “homeland economics” |
But introducing industrial policy is a big mistake, argues Callum Williams
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| 2-Oct-2023
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Video: Busting globalisation myths |
How our correspondent followed his hunch about protectionism
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| 7-Oct-2023
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Homeland Economics |
Governments across the world are rediscovering industrial policy. They are making a big mistake, argues Callum Williams
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| 6-Nov-2023
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Invading Taiwan would be a logistical minefield for China |
Russia’s problems in Ukraine make it look even more daunting
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| 6-Nov-2023
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Xi Jinping is obsessed with political loyalty in the PLA |
Ideology is undermining China’s drive to prepare forces for combat
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| 6-Nov-2023
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Xi Jinping worries that China’s troops are not ready to fight |
Now the war in Ukraine has revealed new challenges for the PLA
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| 6-Nov-2023
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From hypersonic missiles to undersea drones, the PLA is making leaps |
But China’s military tech still lags behind the West’s
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| 6-Nov-2023
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China is struggling to recruit enough highly skilled troops |
The PLA needs them to operate all its new weapons
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| 6-Nov-2023
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The People’s Liberation Army is not yet as formidable as the West fears |
Overestimating China’s armed forces would be dangerous, argues Jeremy Page
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| 11-Nov-2023
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Unknown soldiers |
Overestimating China’s armed forces would be dangerous, argues Jeremy Page
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| 20-Nov-2023
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A net-zero world needs new markets and institutions |
It is just possible they will be built in time
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| 20-Nov-2023
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Carbon-dioxide-removal options are multiplying |
Many are intriguing; none is cheap, scalable and easily verified
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| 20-Nov-2023
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Trees alone will not save the world |
But better markets and better monitoring will let them do more
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| 20-Nov-2023
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The many prices of carbon dioxide |
Not all tonnes are created equal
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| 20-Nov-2023
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The temptations of deferred removals |
Carbon dioxide removals must start at scale sooner than people think
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| 20-Nov-2023
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Carbon-dioxide removal needs more attention |
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| 25-Nov-2023
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The new economy net zero needs |
It is vital to climate stabilisation, remarkably challenging and systematically ignored
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| 28-Nov-2023
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| 10-Jan-2024
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| 10-Jan-2024
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The future of philanthropy will involve a mix of different approaches |
The main issue is persuading the rich to give at all
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The “effective altruism” movement is louder than it is large |
And there are big questions about whether it will continue
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| 10-Jan-2024
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Philanthropy in Asia is becoming more professional |
But that is not making it more like giving in the West
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| 10-Jan-2024
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A growing industry is emerging to make philanthropy simpler |
Donors want a quicker, easier way to give
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| 10-Jan-2024
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GiveDirectly does what it says on the tin |
Cash hand-outs can transform communities
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| 10-Jan-2024
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No-strings philanthropy is giving charities more decision-making power |
Organisations on the ground know best how money should be spent
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| 10-Jan-2024
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The super-rich are trying new approaches to philanthropy |
They are hoping to get money to the needy faster, says Avantika Chilkoti
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| 13-Jan-2024
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Move fast and mend things |
The super-rich are hoping to get money to the needy faster, says Avantika Chilkoti
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| 11-Mar-2024
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For 50 years the story of oil has been one of matching supply with increasing demand |
The next 50 years will be different, argues Vijay Vaitheeswaran in a special report
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| 11-Mar-2024
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Why oil supply shocks are not like the 1970s any more |
America has a lot of oil now, and the global energy market is more robust
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| 11-Mar-2024
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The end of oil, then and now |
It is possible to cut oil demand. That does not mean it is easy, or will be done well
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| 11-Mar-2024
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Oil’s endgame will be in the Gulf |
And the Gulf states know it
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| 11-Mar-2024
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Can Big Oil run in reverse? |
Some of the industry sees putting carbon dioxide back in the ground as key to its future
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| 11-Mar-2024
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| 16-Mar-2024
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The long goodbye |
The next 50 years will be different, argues Vijay Vaitheeswaran in a special report
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| 22-Apr-2024
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India must make much deeper changes if it is to sustain its growth |
Improved human capital and a better relationship between the centre and the states will be crucial
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| 22-Apr-2024
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Going green could bring huge benefits for India’s economy |
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| 22-Apr-2024
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India’s leaders must deal with three economic weaknesses |
For growth to become more sustainable, it needs to be broader based
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| 22-Apr-2024
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India’s difficult business environment is improving |
The changes are allowing Indian firms to become more dynamic
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| 22-Apr-2024
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India’s financial system has improved dramatically in the past decade |
There is much more change to come
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| 22-Apr-2024
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For its next phase of growth, India needs a new reform agenda |
With the right changes, it can become an engine of global growth, say Arjun Ramani and Thomas Easton
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| 25-Apr-2024
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| 27-Apr-2024
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The India express |
With the right changes, it can become an engine of global growth, say Arjun Ramani and Thomas Easton
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| 3-May-2024
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| 3-May-2024
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How the financial system would respond to a superpower war |
A conflict could deal a death blow to the global financial order
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| 3-May-2024
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The fight to dethrone the dollar |
Attempts to challenge the dollar have only strengthened its dominance
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| 3-May-2024
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National payment systems are proliferating |
That spurs competition, innovation—and cross-border frictions
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| 3-May-2024
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The movement of capital globally is in decline |
Geopolitics is altering its trajectory
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| 3-May-2024
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How crises reshaped the world financial system |
A brief history of fragmentation
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| 3-May-2024
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The global financial system is in danger of fragmenting |
The American-led financial order is giving way to a more divided one
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| 11-May-2024
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Worlds apart |
The American-led financial order is giving way to a more divided one
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| 7-Jul-2024
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England’s school reforms are earning fans abroad |
Countries that have made more fashionable changes have seen their scores fall hard
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| 7-Jul-2024
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Efforts to teach character bring promise and perils |
‘Social and emotional learning’ bundles good sense with some quackery
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| 7-Jul-2024
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Will artificial intelligence transform school? |
The boldest visions for AI in classrooms misunderstand much about education
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| 7-Jul-2024
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The rich world’s teachers are increasingly morose |
Hanging on to the best of them is getting harder
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| 7-Jul-2024
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Schools in rich countries are making poor progress |
They need to get back to basics, argues Mark Johnson
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| 11-Jul-2024
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| 13-Jul-2024
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Must try harder |
Schools in rich countries are making poor progress. They need to get back to basics, argues Mark Johnson
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