Get-rich-quick scheming: India and Indonesia

Decades of messaging have not worked, so governments are trying new ways to get citizens to eat well, from scary labelling to taxing the junkiest foods. Will it work? The death of a plague researcher in Russia is made more mysterious by the government’s resolute lack of transpare ...  عرض المزيد

Bond yields across the rich world keep ticking up. We take a global look at where the risks are mounting most, and just how much worry is warranted. What might have once seemed fanciful is becoming real: delivering daylight to dark parts of the world using mirrors in space. And t ...  عرض المزيد

There are similarities between the two economies set to be the fastest-growing this year—but their <a href="https://www.economist.com/international/2023/03/29/which-will-grow-faster-india-or-indonesia?utm_campaign=a.io&utm_medium=audio.podcast.np&utm_source=theintelligence&utm ...

In attempts to amass more wealth, these organisations are dabbling in <a href="https://www.economist.com/united-states/2023/05/11/fentanyl-trafficking-tests-americas-foreign-policy?utm_campaign=a.io&utm_medium=audio.podcast.np&utm_source=theintelligence&utm_content=discovery.c ...

Many of the continent’s economies are hamstrung by debt—much of it held internationally. We look at the <a href="https://www.economist.com/middle-east-and-africa/2023/05/16/africa-faces-a-mounting-debt-crisis?utm_campaign=a.io&utm_medium=audio.podcast.np&utm_source=theintellig ...

The alliance was always based more on common fortunes than common interests. We ask what to make of the six new members, and whether the bloc’s <a href="https://www.economist.com/international/2023/08/17/the-brics-are-getting-together-in-south-africa?utm_campaign=a.io&utm_medi ...