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Entrepreneurs in Côte d’Ivoire are circumventing high retail rents and government bureaucracy to start businesses online, resulting in a thriving informal digital economy. From baby clothes to handmade jewelry, small …
Côte d’Ivoire’s informal economy has come online and the government’s not happy Read More
From the publisher: Loneliness has become the defining condition of the twenty-first century. It is damaging our health, our wealth, and our happiness and even threatening our democracy. Never has …
The Lonely Century Read More
Amsterdam has usurped London to become Europe’s biggest hub for trading shares. It is quite a shift for a city that was fifth behind Paris, Frankfurt and Milan only two months ago, …
Amsterdam ousts London as Europe’s top share hub, taking trading back to where it all began Read More
Huge amounts of post-pandemic stimulus packages are mostly failing to support action to tackle climate change or halt the loss of biodiversity, but the amount of green spending is slowly …
Spending on green economic stimulus is slowly rising, study finds Read More
India is entering a “solar-powered revolution” that will see it edge out coal as the nation’s top electricity source, according to the International Energy Agency (IEA). Solar power currently makes …
IEA: India is on ‘cusp of a solar-powered revolution’ Read More
Our electronic devices take a serious environmental toll, and one of the best ways to mitigate that is to use them for as long as possible before replacing them. But …
Why France’s new ‘repairability index’ is a big deal Read More
From the publisher: What can comedy tell us about the politics of a nation? In this book, James Brassett builds on his prize-winning research to demonstrate how British comedy can …
The Ironic State Read More
The 2015 Gorkha earthquake was a singular natural disaster that has defined Nepal’s economic development in the latter half of the 2010s. Hit particularly hard by the earthquake was the …
Rainbow Trout Aquaculture in Nepal: Promise Amid Shocks Read More
“There are four things you should know,” says David Fuertes to the youths he mentors. “You should know your origins, because your ancestors have paved the way. You should know …
Returning to the Roots of Community Resilience in Hawai‘i Read More
Some people are more predisposed to gambling large sums, or diving off a cliff, or even starting their own business in a free-falling economy. And that tendency toward risk-taking might …
Risk‑Taking Might Be Determined by Our DNA, Finds Study Read More