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