One of the keys to China’s economic renaissance over the past couple of decades is often overlooked. Namely, it has built a lot of roads. China’s highways have more or less tripled from around 50,000km…
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A fatal crowd surge during a performance by US rapper Travis Scott on Friday night has become one of the deadliest live music incidents in recent years. Crowd crushes during the Houston show, which was…
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The Central Bank of Lebanon is to be audited as recriminations fly over the country’s descent into economic crisis. The government appointed turnaround consultants Alvarez & Marsal to carry out the audit, after a cabinet…
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© Reuters. People demonstrate during the UN Climate Change Conference (COP26), in Glasgow, Scotland, Britain, November 7, 2021. REUTERS/Yves Herman By Mark John, Simon Jessop and William James GLASGOW (Reuters) – Behind the headlines touting…
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The Zimbabwean economy has continued to experience turbulence, despite having managed to weather a devastating spell of hyperinflation which peaked in 2008. One economic area which has remained a thorn in the flesh for ordinary…
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Climate change is touching every aspect of our lives – including our daily cups of tea. Kenya and Malawi are the African continent’s largest tea producers and exporters, together accounting for about 27% of global…
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3/3 © Reuters. FILE PHOTO: A crushed bottle is seen on the dry ground of the Jaguari dam, which is part of the Cantareira reservoir system, during a drought in Joanopolis, near Sao Paulo, Brazil,…
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Many low and middle-income countries face a myriad of challenges. But policies that can address them are few and far between. The challenges include high and rising inequality, budget crises and the ongoing pandemic. In…
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Virgin birth – which involves the development of an unfertilised egg – has preoccupied humans for aeons. And although it can’t happen in mammals, it does seem to be possible in other animals with backbones…
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Central banks may need to “embrace failure” if they are to get ahead of new developments in the technology space, says Dominik Weh, a partner at Oliver Wyman. “You can only fulfill your mandate and…
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