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Can satellite cities help solve Africa’s urbanisation challenges?
Many have failed to live up the hype
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Where have all the laid-off tech workers gone?
Employment in the technology industry has reached an inflection point
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Is this the end of crypto?
The collapse of FTX has dealt a catastrophic blow to crypto’s reputation and aspirations
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The coming food catastrophe
War is tipping a fragile world towards mass hunger. Fixing that is everyone’s business
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The Taliban’s terrifying triumph in Afghanistan
The jihadists seize Kabul, filling a vacuum Joe Biden left | Asia
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Small cities in America’s Mountain West are booming
Rocky Mountain metros are growing both despite and because of the pandemic | United States
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China is betting that the West is in irreversible decline
The country’s leaders see their moment, and are seizing it | China
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Why are so many athletics records falling?
A rush of remarkable performances has been attributed to new running shoes
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Schumpeter - Elon, Masa and Boris in low-Earth orbit | Business | The Economist
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The rising cost of education and health care is less troubling than believed
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The sociology of country music lyrics
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Why ticket prices on long-haul flights have plummeted
I F YOU HAVE booked a flight recently and been surprised by how cheap your ticket was, you are not alone. Airfares have been falling for years. Between 1995 and…
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Spice is throwing up problems not seen with other drugs
Public services grapple with a street drug that is like no other
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An ambitious African-science project is getting into its stride
New campuses are being built, and new talent nurtured
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Congo’s war was bloody. It may be about to start again
WHEN change comes to Congo, it can come fast. The previous president, Laurent Kabila, lost power when a bodyguard shot him in 2001. The president before that,…
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Are digital distractions harming labour productivity?
FOR many it is a reflex as unconscious as breathing. Hit a stumbling-block during an important task (like, say, writing a column)? The hand reaches for the…
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Blue-collar wages are surging. Can it last?
IF THERE was a defining economic problem for America as it recovered from the financial crisis, it was stagnant wages. In the five years following the end of…
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To err is human; so is the failure to admit it
A NEWSPAPER cannot publish for 174 years without some mistakes. This one has made its share. We thought Britain was safe in the European exchange-rate mechanism…
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The world’s most valuable resource is no longer oil, but data
A NEW commodity spawns a lucrative, fast-growing industry, prompting antitrust regulators to step in to restrain those who control its flow. A century ago, the…
