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1. Africa is undergoing social change without economic transformation
2. The economic gap between Africa and the rest of the world is growing
3. African elites should align themselves with their countries’ needs
4. Africa has too many businesses, too little business
5. The African investment environment is at its worst in years
6. To catch up economically, Africa must think big
8. The American economy has left other rich countries in the dust
9. China’s yuan is nowhere close to displacing the greenback
10. American productivity still leads the world
11. Is higher inequality the price America pays for faster growth?
12. What can stop the American economy now?
13. Why the American stockmarket reigns supreme
14. The shale revolution helped make America’s economy great
16. Schools in rich countries are making poor progress
17. The rich world’s teachers are increasingly morose
18. Will artificial intelligence transform school?
19. Efforts to teach character bring promise and perils
20. England’s school reforms are earning fans abroad
21. National payment systems are proliferating
22. The global financial system is in danger of fragmenting
23. The fight to dethrone the dollar
24. How crises reshaped the world financial system
26. How the financial system would respond to a superpower war
27. The movement of capital globally is in decline
29. Going green could bring huge benefits for India’s economy
30. For its next phase of growth, India needs a new reform agenda
31. India’s difficult business environment is improving
32. India’s leaders must deal with three economic weaknesses
33. India must make much deeper changes if it is to sustain its growth
34. India’s financial system has improved dramatically in the past decade
36. Can Big Oil run in reverse?
38. The end of oil, then and now
39. Why oil supply shocks are not like the 1970s any more
40. For 50 years the story of oil has been one of matching supply with increasing demand
41. Philanthropy in Asia is becoming more professional
42. The super-rich are trying new approaches to philanthropy
43. No-strings philanthropy is giving charities more decision-making power
44. GiveDirectly does what it says on the tin
45. The “effective altruism” movement is louder than it is large
47. The future of philanthropy will involve a mix of different approaches
48. A growing industry is emerging to make philanthropy simpler
50. Carbon-dioxide-removal options are multiplying
51. Carbon-dioxide removal needs more attention
52. Trees alone will not save the world
53. The temptations of deferred removals
54. A net-zero world needs new markets and institutions
57. From hypersonic missiles to undersea drones, the PLA is making leaps
58. The People’s Liberation Army is not yet as formidable as the West fears
59. China is struggling to recruit enough highly skilled troops
60. Xi Jinping worries that China’s troops are not ready to fight
61. Xi Jinping is obsessed with political loyalty in the PLA
62. Invading Taiwan would be a logistical minefield for China
63. Video: Busting globalisation myths
64. Attempts to make supply chains “resilient” are likely to fail
65. “Homeland economics” will make the world poorer
66. Governments across the world are discovering “homeland economics”
67. New industrial policies will make the world more unequal
69. New industrial policies will not help economic stability
70. Green protectionism comes with big risks
72. Video: How we studied the lessons of Ukraine
73. The war in Ukraine shows how technology is changing the battlefield
74. Why logistics are too important to be left to the generals
75. Technology is deepening civilian involvement in war
76. Western armies are learning a lot from the war in Ukraine
77. The latest in the battle of jamming with electronic beams
78. How oceans became new technological battlefields
79. How Ukraine’s enemy is also learning lessons, albeit slowly
82. A digital payments revolution in India
83. The old bank/card model is still entrenched in the rich world
84. Could digital-payments systems help unseat the dollar?
85. The promise of crypto has not lived up to its initial excitement
86. Central-bank digital currencies are talked about more than coming to fruition
87. There are risks but also big potential benefits from digital payments
88. As payments systems go digital, they are changing global finance
90. Software is now as important as hardware in cars
91. A changing car industry should result in more choice and better motoring
92. Autonomous vehicles are coming, but slowly
93. It is getting easier for new entrants to make cars
94. China is leading the challenge to incumbent carmakers
95. Car firms are trying out new ways to sell mobility
96. Everything about carmaking is changing at once
97. How geopolitical tensions could disrupt the global car industry
98. The future lies with electric vehicles
99. Life story
100. Ingenious medicine
102. Who owns your genes?
103. Only connect
104. The proper study of mankind
106. Moviemaking and gamemaking are converging
107. Battles over streaming break out for video games
108. How digital gaming spreads far and wide
109. Complexities of moderating and classifying video games
110. The rise of user-created video games
111. The rise and rise of e-sports
112. Video games, power and diplomacy
113. Ready, player four billion: the rise of video games
115. Taiwanese politics faces a crucial election in early 2024
116. Taiwan desperately needs support from the world
117. The battle with China is psychological as much as physical
118. Taiwan is a vital island that is under serious threat
119. It is time to divert Taiwan’s trade and investment from China
120. Taiwan needs a new defence strategy to deal with China
121. Taiwan’s dominance of the chip industry makes it more important
122. How Taiwan is shaped by its history and identity
123. Turkey is still just a democracy, but it is not certain to remain that way
124. Turkey has a newly confrontational foreign policy
125. The Turkish opposition faces big obstacles to winning the election
126. Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s relatives are becoming increasingly powerful
127. The Turkish economy is in pressing need of reform and repair
128. Turkey has given up promoting political Islam abroad
129. Turkey faces a crucial election this summer
130. The effects on Turkey of Syria’s civil war
133. Italy’s new government needs to make deep economic reforms
134. Why is Italy’s public-debt burden so big?
135. Southern Italy needs private enterprise and infrastructure
136. External shocks have hit the Italian economy hard
137. Italy is trying to deal with its demographic decline
138. Political instability in Italy has always affected reform
139. Italy needs to learn from other countries on structural changes
140. Italy’s protected sectors need exposure to more competition
141. Money and moderately good governance make climate-change adaptation easier
142. The rich world is wrong to think that climate impacts in poor countries don’t matter
143. Small climate projects cannot take the place of all large ones
144. The world has to adapt to the climate change it will not avoid
145. The business of businesses is climate-change adaptation
146. Public money must pave the way for private investment in climate-change adaptation
147. A lot can be done to adapt farming to near-term climate change
148. For Western democracies, the price of avoiding a clash with China is rising
149. To show that it can follow global rules, China built its own multilateral institution
150. China has chilling plans for governing Taiwan
151. Why America and Europe fret about China turning inwards
152. China is exerting greater power across Asia—and beyond
153. China wants to change, or break, a world order set by others
154. China seeks a world order that defers to states and their rulers
155. The inflation problem will get better before it gets worse
156. Policymakers are likely to jettison their 2% inflation targets
158. Adding up the fiscal drag from ageing, energy and defence
159. Is the world economy in a debt trap?
160. Elderly populations mean more government spending
161. Inflation and rising demands on governments are changing economic policy
163. The public wants to refund, not defund, the police
164. Stopping the spiral of murder and violent crime
165. America is unusually bad at clearing up homicides
166. How to stop the killing
167. American exceptionalism exists, but other countries also have problems
168. How softer non-policing strategies might help
169. How Baltimore became a sad harbinger of the future
170. An anatomy of hard times in the city
174. How to charge more
175. The saviour complex
176. Missionary creep
177. A broken system needs urgent repairs
178. The warm glow
179. Internalising the externalities
182. A region that seems unable to reach its potential
183. A region caught between stagnation and angry street protests
184. The deficiencies of the Latin American state loom large
185. Latin American society is modernising, mostly for the better
186. The high cost of schools closed by covid
187. The urgent need to reform political systems
188. The rival influences of the United States and China
189. Chinese loans and investment in infrastructure have been huge
190. How Chinese firms have changed Africa
191. Countering China in Africa
192. The Chinese-African relationship is important to both sides, but also unbalanced
193. Ace of bases
194. The price of friendship
195. China, meet Fourth Estate
196. The perils of expanded balance-sheets
197. When central banks face sanctions
199. The curse of being too competent
201. How central banks are moving into e-money
202. The danger of excessive distraction
203. When central banks become one-stop policy shops
206. Like America, the Sunshine State also rises
208. The bid to make Florida’s most famous city a tech hub
209. Florida faces a triple threat to its environment
211. A peninsula that makes waves in policy formation
212. The economy sees repeated boom and bust cycles
213. Regulators have private markets in their sights
214. Private markets are less rewarding than they used to be
215. Alternative fund managers are increasingly mainstream
216. Private markets have grown exponentially
217. Investors rely more and more on higher returns from private markets
218. More borrowers turn to private markets for credit
220. Governments’ widespread new fondness for interventionism
221. However justified, more government intervention risks being counterproductive
222. Many countries are seeing a revival of industrial policy
223. The growing demand for more vigorous antitrust action
224. The long trend of falling corporate taxes is being reversed
226. Enthusiasm for regulation, often in areas like the climate, shows no sign of flagging
227. Japan’s economy is stronger than many realise
228. Why Japan needs more forceful defence
229. The future could be brighter
230. The big city that is also pleasant to live in
231. Letting more migrants in by stealth
232. A country that is on the front line
234. An ageing country shows others how to manage
235. Japan has a chequered record on climate change
236. Governing the atmosphere
237. Why the world needs negative emissions
239. How Asia is crucial in the battle against climate change
240. The economics of the climate
241. What the Paris agreement of 2015 meant
242. The agenda for the COP 26 summit
243. In search of resilience
245. The urge to protect
246. The new order of trade
249. Making trade greener
250. The world needs a more active Germany
251. A troubled road lies ahead for German carmakers
252. Parts of Germany are desperate for more people
254. Germany’s urgent need for greater public investment
256. The attitudes of Germany’s young
257. After Merkel
258. The European Union will badly miss Angela Merkel
259. Most Arab countries now focus on domestic concerns, not unity
260. Egypt is again under military rule, but Sisi lacks Nasser’s appeal
261. Across the Arab world, Islamists’ brief stints in power have failed
262. Iran scores a pyrrhic victory in its cold war with Saudi Arabia
263. The Palestinian cause no longer binds the Arab world
264. Why the Arab world has an identity crisis
265. The Arab League has done little for its members in nearly 70 years
266. Getting into the vanguard of the Chinese elite
267. Trying to heal the party’s wounds
268. The party is eager to expand its influence within business
269. Busybodies, backed by AI, are restoring the party’s visibility
270. The push to revamp the Chinese Communist Party for the next 100 years
271. As Chinese citizens head overseas, the party does likewise
273. A future, but with Chinese characteristics
276. The captain and his country
277. Of Bibles and ballots
281. A dream deferred
282. White Americans are beginning to realise that they too belong to a race
283. How to design anti-discrimination policies that actually work
284. Overt racism may be waning in America, but its scars remain deep
285. America is becoming less racist but more divided by racism
286. Racial categorisation has grown more complex in America
287. Reparations alone will not heal America’s racial divides
288. Millions of African-Americans remain stuck
289. When central banks issue digital money
290. How fintech will eat into banks’ business
291. A bigger role for venture capital
293. A brave new world for banks
295. Will the dollar stay dominant?
296. When interest rates turn negative
297. The biggest losers from covid-19
298. The rise of working from home
299. Robots threaten jobs less than fearmongers claim
300. Changing central banks—and governments
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