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China’s lockdown may have reduced air pollution as factories and power plants halted, but the pandemic has had the opposite effect on the nation’s nascent recycling effort. Millions of people …
China’s War on Garbage Faces a Major Coronavirus Setback Read More
Africa is crying out for debt relief to weather a perfect storm of coronavirus, plummeting oil and commodity prices, mounting budget deficits and weaker currencies. But delivering the relief that …
Africa’s web of creditors complicates coronavirus debt relief Read More
From the publisher: Nature is no longer the leading cause of death; society is. This makes health care one of the most important political issues today. This book looks at …
Vital Signs: The Deadly Costs of Health Inequality Read More
Getting together to reduce carbon emissions brings hope in a world that doesn’t care, say Colin Nolden and Michele Stua On first sight, the global climate conference in Madrid was a …
Carbon dating Read More
Thomas attempts to go viral as mass infection brings great opportunities. I am isolating myself. There’s nothing wrong with me, or Thomas, but others around us are dropping like flies. But, …
Isolated incidents Read More
It all started with hope. Now we have viral infection. But there is still hope. I came up with “hope” as the theme for this issue in the autumn. I was …
Accentuate the positive Read More
Nicholas Gruen questions the value of competition and proposes a new frontier for political and economic reform. Since Adam Smith, economists have marvelled at competition’s capacity to improve our world …
Taking sides Read More
It has been almost ten years since economics students rose up in protest against the way they were being taught. Has anything changed? The dire state of economics at university …
The Mint is listening to… Daniel Woodell 21, Third year Economics Read More
As the new decade begins, The Mint asked a quintet of our 2019 #NotTheNobel Finalists to name their book of the past decade and to tell us why it wins …
Ten out of ten for five Read More
Researchers have charted the US phenomenon where, as globalisation spreads injustice, the despondent reach for the gun. Review by John Komlos It is a commonplace that the demographic development of …
Nothing left to lose Read More