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The demonetisation drive has made the banking sector healthier but failed to curb ‘black money’.
Building a great big wall will not close the gap.
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The answer to job losses is not economic protectionism, but a strengthening of workers’ rights.
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If educated women are discriminated against in their home country, they will take their skills elsewhere.
Windturbines and windfarms are one example of what green bonds can finance.
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How to measure the real impact of green bonds? As France is issuing its first green bonds, the market in the global south could expand fast this year.
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The success of the first phase prompted financial observers to hail Indonesia’s tax amnesty program as one of the most successful in the world.
US President Donald Trump signs an executive order on the country’s withdrawal from the Trans Pacific Partnership.
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The agreement could be as good as dead, if, instead of pushing ahead without the US, its members decide to explore bilateral trade agreements with the country.
Can events like Chanel Fashion Week can still happen in Cuba?
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With its uncharismatic president and liberalising economy, Cuba already looks less like North Korea and more like China or Vietnam.
Can basic income become a worldwide policy?
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The arguments for an universal basic income have emerged from a rising disillusionment in classic economics and expectations of more security.
People protesting hikes in Mexican fuel prices block access to a Pemex gas station.
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Is this the beginning of a ‘Mexican Spring’?
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We could be witnessing the beginning of globalisation going in reverse.
A 3D printer creates a sophisticated geometric structure, developed by Silicon Valley startup Carbon.
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Objects of almost any shape or geometry can be produced by 3D printing. The technology could seriously disrupt not just manufacturing but related national plans for economic development.
ExxonMobil and Venezuela have been spatting over oil for decades.
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Venezuela and ExxonMobil have been spatting over oil for decades. How will that history impact relations under a Rex Tillerson-run State Department?
Many Venezuelans won’t be able to celebrate Christmas this year.
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Empty toy stores, bakeries without bread and families who can’t travel to be together. This is the year that the government Grinch stole Christmas.
Bhutan hydropower potential could change around its position in South-Asian economics.
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Bhutan and Nepal could change economic development in South Asia, thanks to their hydropower potential.
The Minha Casa Minha Vida programme has built millions of affordable units, but Brazil’s poorest still struggle to find adequate housing.
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Brazil should ask itself which is more important: having a roof over your head or owning the roof over your head?
Volkswagen HQ in Wolfsburg, Germany, where it all began.
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Fallout from the Volkswagen case shows how scandals can give virtuous organisations a competitive edge and help industries evolve.
Fishers in Mozambique won’t benefit from southern Africa’s latest deal with the EU.
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A deal intended to help southern African countries develop could instead turn them into an EU dumping ground for cheap goods.
Bangladesh’s central bank recommended not opening up more opportunities for new banks, but the government thought otherwise.
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Research into banks’ charitable activities shows a strong interest in disclosing donations made the the ruling family’s causes.
Fistful of nothing.
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India is engulfed in chaos after Prime Minister Narendra Modi introduced the wrong policy at the wrong time.
Volkswagen’s headquarters in Wolfsburg, Germany.
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A powerful diesel lobby and fragmented class action laws put EU consumers at a disadvantage.
The minimum wage in Mexico doesn’t cover a family’s basic needs.
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Do Mexico’s lowest earners need a big raise?
Countries looking to make new deals may be apprehensive about encountering political hostility akin to that garnered by the TPP.
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A stalled Trans-Pacific Partnership opens the way for China, which was excluded from the agreement, to assume leadership in regional economic integration efforts in the Asia-Pacific.
A police officer escorts migrants from a train at Hyllie station outside Malmo.
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Job prospects are not good for newly arrived refugees in Sweden. But better integration programmes will help.
By the end 2015, nearly 560 million people in Africa had some kind of mobile phone package.
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The African continent appears to have the most remarkable potential for growth and transformation, but can it be sustainable?
A broker in Mumbai reacts on November 9.
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The world braces for Donald Trump’s brand of` trade protectionism, which will send shockwaves through the global economy.