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Returning ‘heroes’: Filipino migrant workers met with a devastated economy

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Filipino healthcare workers have found themselves thrust to the frontlines of the pandemic to care for the most vulnerable across the globe. The Philippines is one of the world’s leading …

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Libya starts using new exchange rate as economy struggles

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The Central Bank of Libya on Sunday introduced a new unified exchange rate agreed last month after years of division between rival branches based on opposing sides of the front …

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African free trade bloc opens for business, but challenges remain

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African countries began officially trading under a new continent-wide free trade area on Friday (1 January), after months of delays caused by the global coronavirus pandemic. But experts view the …

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The Less Equal We Become, the Less We Trust Science

29/12/202001/01/2021 - Leave a Comment

In mid November, South Dakota emergency room nurse Jodi Doering tweeted her experience of caring for dying patients. Many, she said, were denying the existence of COVID-19 until their final breaths. Their last dying …

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What natural disasters cost the global economy in 2020

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Covid-19 is clearly the crisis that defined 2020, but millions of people were forced to grapple with natural disasters alongside the pandemic. A Biblical deluge of record-breaking Atlantic hurricanes, devastating …

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China to overtake US as largest global economy by 2028: report

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The coronavirus pandemic and its economic fallout will help China rise past the US to become the world’s largest economy, a new report shows. Beijing is now expected to overtake the …

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Product design policy will be key to circular economy, EU says

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As the European Union seeks to transition to a ‘circular economy’, the policy focus in 2021 will turn to products: how they are designed, and why so many seem to …

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No trickle-down: Tax cuts for rich fuel inequality, study finds

16/12/202018/12/2020 - Leave a Comment

Tax cuts for rich people breed inequality without providing much of a boon to anyone else, according to a study of the advanced world that could add to the case …

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A quiet crisis: As the economy fractures, violence soars for Afghan women

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Fatima lay in bed at the internal medicine ward at the bustling Mirwais Hospital in the southern Afghan city of Kandahar – a black scarf draped over her head and …

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IMF austerity is strangling Ecuador – again.

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15 December should be a turning point in the IMF’s relationship to the people of Ecuador: a chance for reflection, a fresh start in a new year, an opportunity to …

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