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Can women-only factories help more Indian women into work?
Ola, an electric-scooter manufacturer, is trying to find out.
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Truth Social is a mind-bending win for Donald Trump
And disturbing evidence of how he destabilises reality for Americans.
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Without fanfare, the Philippines is getting richer
And its economy is unusually well-defended against American politics.
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Will war snuff out the Gulf’s global business ambitions?
Companies far and wide are feeling the effects of the conflict.
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Why you should never retire
Pleasure cruises, golf and tracing the family tree are not that fulfilling
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A problem at the heart of Formula One
How can any sport combine fun, spectacle and viewers’ demand for more greenery?
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Demand for “green” metals will redraw the global mining map
The energy transition will mint new fortunes in surprising places
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How motherhood hurts careers
A new study measures its impact on women’s employment worldwide
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Slowing human ageing is now the subject of serious research
And some of it is making progress, writes Geoffrey Carr
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ChatGPT mania may be cooling, but a serious new industry is taking shape
Three forces will shape the business of generative AI
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AI holds tantalising promise for the emerging world
It could help boost human capital, and ultimately growth
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Rupert Murdoch isn't going anywhere just yet
As “chairman emeritus” the Fox and News Corp boss will still wield plenty of clout
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Why are Vietnam’s schools so good?
It understands the value of education and manages its teachers well.
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Europe’s last finishing school targets anxious executives
As the supply of debutantes dries up, etiquette experts explore a new market
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What Asia's economic revolution means for the world
Links between the region’s countries are getting stronger. But America’s loss is not entirely China’s gain.
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Global fertility has collapsed, with profound economic consequences
What might change the world’s dire demographic trajectory?
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The world’s most liveable cities in 2023
An index by our sister company rates the best, and worst, cities in which to live
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The rich world’s housing crunch is far from over
Markets can be split into three camps: early adjusters, bullet-dodgers and slow movers.
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Large, creative AI models will transform lives and labour markets
They bring enormous promise and peril. In the first of three special articles we explain how they work
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Retirement has become much longer across the rich world
On average, men can expect to spend 20 years kicking back.
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Will the recent banking chaos lead to an economic crash?
So far, people seem remarkably blasé.
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Big tech and the pursuit of AI dominance
The tech giants are going all in on artificial intelligence. Each is doing it its own way.
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The global rice crisis
Rice feeds more than half the world—but also fuels diabetes and climate change.
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How the young spend their money
They are woke, broke and complicated. Businesses should take note.
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The cucumber Saudis: how the Dutch got too good at farming
A small, fertiliser-rich country sniffs the limits of its old model.
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Extreme weather is making parts of Australia uninhabitable
Some towns and suburbs will have to move to higher ground.
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23 items of vocabulary you’ll need to know in 2023
Passkeys? Post-quantum cryptography? Vertiports? Get up to speed here.
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Can India’s Richest Man Remake Mumbai’s biggest slum?
Gautam Adani takes on India’s essential, impossible job: redeveloping Dharavi.
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Will Elon Musk-owned Twitter end up as a “deal from hell”?
Everything app. Or nothingburger.
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Rates are rising at unprecedented speed. When will they bite?
Long lags in monetary policy are no argument for inaction.
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The economics of thinness
It is economically rational for ambitious women to try as hard as possible to be thin.
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Travel chaos in Europe is a glimpse of a future with few spare workers
Employers are wondering where the staff went.
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Fashion gets a modern makeover
A $700bn industry flirts with new materials, new countries—and new clients.
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Reading corporate culture from the outside
It is becoming a bit easier to peer inside firms.
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How sturdy are Europe’s tech unicorns?
The downturn is unlikely to lay waste to tech on the old continent again.
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With or without Elon Musk, Twitter is overdue a shake-up
Behind a stagnation in users lies a stagnating product.
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A wave of unrest is coming. Here’s how to avert some of it
Soaring food and fuel prices are adding to pre-existing grievances.
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How sport reflects America’s changing demography
Sports teams, like people, are moving south and west.
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The biggest risks to Singapore’s primacy in Asian finance are at home
The pecking order of financial centres is changing.
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A new nuclear era
With his threats to use the bomb, Russia's president has overturned the nuclear order.
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What America’s next recession will look like
A mild downturn may be followed by a painfully prolonged recovery.
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Why Americans are poorly served by their grocery stores
Food shopping is expensive and inefficient, but change is coming.
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Is big tech’s red-hot jobs market about to cool?
The industry’s giants are slowing their hiring.
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The luxury of Asia’s malls is no substitute for genuine public spaces
The continent needs places where anyone can picnic, hang out or even protest.
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The return of the inventory cycle
Why companies have become more prone to over-ordering stock.
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What John Lewis’s turn around says about the British High Street
The chain has arrested its decline by closing stores and diversifying its business.
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More than just business buddies - Israeli firms and tourists are piling into Morocco
A once-furtive friendship has burst into the open.
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When and how might the war in Ukraine end?
Western allies are starting to split over the conditions for a peace.
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How Chinese firms have changed Africa
Chinese companies have made their mark on the African continent, in ways good and bad.
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Press Freedom is under attack
Journalists are struggling worst conditions since the cold war.
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California wants to lead the world on climate policy
The energy crunch offers the state a chance to live up to its green reputation.
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How to deter China from attacking Taiwan
What Taiwan can learn from Ukraine about resisting invasion.
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Can’t grow, won’t grow - Why Mexico’s economy underperforms
Red tape, taxes and gangsters keep small firms small.
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The push for shareholder democracy should be accelerated
It is still too hard for small shareholders to be heard.
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Atolls as power stations - How to power Pacific islands
Turn the atolls themselves into power stations.
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Into the mainstream – Private Markets have grown exponentially
The past decade has been a golden one for private financial markets. As they become bigger they are being dramatically reshaped, says Matthew Valencia.
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The other crisis - China scrambles to prevent property pandemonium
As defaults escalate, another shock threatens to hit the global economy.
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The new order of Trade: Special Report
Trade has been about growth and efficiency. Now other goals are competing for attention, says Soumaya Keynes.
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Advantages and limits of the Gates foundation
Young Chinese are both patriotic and socially progressive. That mix is already changing their country, says Stephanie Studer, our China correspondent.
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Generation Xi
Young Chinese are both patriotic and socially progressive. That mix is already changing their country, says Stephanie Studer, our China correspondent.
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The booming business of knitting together the world’s power grids
Intermittent renewables and current mayhem in energy markets highlight the importance of firms that link up producers of power with faraway consumers.
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