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The Chinese manufacturing boom has been followed by a rapid growth in retail..
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Symbolic recognition will boost the marketability of the Valencian delicacy.
Young workers have been quicker to adapt.
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These two groups bounced back more quickly in the jobs market than certain other groups, although they may still experience lasting consequences.
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An economic approach to emancipation.
Safe as houses?
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While cryptocurrencies have exploded in value, so has this sub-genre that mimicks real-world assets like the US dollar.
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The pandemic has left many looking for work as part of a longer term decline.
US tech company’s search for the right result proves fruitless.
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The knock-on effects from this ruling could be enormous.
Financial services company Allianz, sponsors of Bayern Munich, are one of 2021’s top performing ESG – environmentally responsible – companies.
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Big corporations are under pressure to take real action on emissions or risk the wrath of protesters, investors and even shareholders.
‘The customer is always real.’
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You may not have heard of conversational commerce, but it’s quietly appearing in more and more places.
The aftermath of the 2021 earthquake in Haiti.
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Collaboration can have immediate benefits in the most dire circumstances.
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China has given itself a major advantage over India by constructing a massive road network in the past two decades.
Mark Carney, co-chair of Gfanz, talking tough on climate finance.
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Banks are making inroads with investments, but that’s only one third of their activity.
Bank of England Governor Andrew Bailey announcing the latest on lending rates.
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Against all speculation, the bank decided to hold the base rate at all-time lows for another month.
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As COVID gradually recedes and attention focuses on economic recovery, good leadership is essential to help companies and their employees navigate a post-pandemic future.
Chinese leader Xi Jinping has been strangling corporate power.
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China’s statist logic or market organisation is shared by the likes of South Africa, Brazil, India, Russia and even South Korea.
Fishing in the Maldives.
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Idyllic destinations have been seen a calamitous drop in income since the pandemic.
An M-Pesa stall in Nairobi, Kenya.
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We spoke to poor M-Pesa customers in Kenya who said it had changed their lives.
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We discovered that the 12 largest petrochemical companies announced 88 new projects between 2012 and 2019: new and expanded facilities that will likely operate for decades, ramping up carbon emissions.
The sun has got his hat on …
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Does a period of unmanageable debt, runaway energy prices, job instability and a choppy green transition sound like an age of optimism to you?
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We talk to three experts who argue we governments need to find alternatives for their dependence on economic growth. Listen to episode 39 of The Conversation Weekly.
What’s in the box?
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Ernestine Gheyoh Ndzi , York St John University ; Alexander Tziamalis , Sheffield Hallam University ; Cam Donaldson , Glasgow Caledonian University ; Despina Alexiadou , University of Strathclyde ; Edward Thomas Jones , Bangor University ; Gabriella Legrenzi , Keele University ; Gavin Midgley , University of Southampton ; Jonquil Lowe , The Open University ; Karl Schmedders , International Institute for Management Development (IMD) ; Michael Jacobs , University of Sheffield ; Phil Tomlinson , University of Bath , and Steven McCabe , Birmingham City University
Sunak talked about a new age of optimism, but it doesn’t feel like that for many people.
‘Fingers crossed for a glorious 2022.’
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There’s a long list of pre-announcements, but it remains to be seen how much turns out to be smoke and mirrors.
The crypto wars are hotting up.
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Ethereum’s Altair upgrade is about to go live, in a big step towards a faster, greener ethereum 2.0.
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The launch of a new fund has brought new investors to the party.
Ships waiting to dock at Los Angeles.
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All the extra profits that shipping companies have made from high freight rates should be put to good use.