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The pandemic has shown us the need for widespread security.
COVID and containment measures have brought Afghanistan to brink of humanitarian catastrophe.
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The infrastructure and levels of deprivation in poorer countries have prevented them from benefiting from containment measures as much as richer nations.
Factories like this one in Serbia will have to pay carbon duties to export to EU in future.
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In setting new tax on the carbon emissions of goods being imported into the bloc, there are two potential disasters for EU to avoid.
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The two countries both stand to benefit from closer economic ties.
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It’s been argued that pandemics are the great leveller, but with COVID the opposite is true – and we can’t afford to ignore it.
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Improved awareness is a positive move for personnel, and the bottom line.
Online shopping and services have grown during COVID-19.
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The huge shift towards more digital working and trading are a fundamental challenge to the way countries agreed to interact with each other.
Sneakers have become highly covetable collectors’ items.
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As sneakers have gone from sportswear to fashion item, the market for the shoe has exploded.
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Paying out for vital services has a serious impact on mental health.
From dawn til Musk.
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Bitcoin prices have plunged after the world’s second richest person tweeted that Tesla would no longer accept the cryptocurrency.
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Lost revenue is money that could be spent on lifting people out of poverty.
Challenging circumstances.
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New research into sex work in the UK highlights some of the changes and challenges sex workers have faced.
Gaps, gaps and more gaps.
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Men save more for retirement than women, but it has been changing over time.
The Ys and wherefores.
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The digital yuan could make transactions faster, cheaper and more transparent, but there are dangers for the global economy.
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The British royal family has got more in common with the average family business than you might first imagine.
‘Look less bored, this is your final warning.’
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Companies are using myriad ways to check up on employees at home, from keylogger software to webcam monitoring.
For Narendra Modi, the Indian premier, the deal is a very welcome distraction.
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What the deal involves and why it matters.
Unemployed Liberian young men seeking daily jobs at the industrial district of Bushrod Island, Monrovia, Liberia.
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Since 1999, extreme poverty has declined while rates of young people in education and employment have risen. Without investment though, the impact of the pandemic could see this progress imperilled,
Production line 2021.
Helena Lopes
A new study asked over 1,000 workers how productive they were at home, and the results shine a light into how companies should approach remote working in future.
The scheme has done little to shift British attitudes that see men as the breadwinners and women, the caregivers.
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Designed to encourage an equal distribution of childcare duties, the government’s policy was flawed to begin with
Pride and prejudice.
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Gay men earn 11% less while lesbian women earn 9% more than their heterosexual counterparts.
India is the fifth largest economy in the world.
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COVID has now claimed over 200,000 lives on the subcontinent, and the knock-on effects are likely to be substantial.
Debenhams’ 242-year history is being reduced to a brand.
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This doesn’t have to be the end for empty retail space.
Homes fit for zeroes (and ones).
Julien Tromeur
Where some see a bubble waiting to burst, others see a reinvention of the way we handle ownership of assets.
B is for bank restrictions.
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NatWest and HSBC are restricting customers in their crypto-dealings.