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GLOBAL ECONOMY

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BUSINESS
Jan 20, 2022
U.S. to set 'common goals' on Indo-Pacific economic cooperation in early 2022
U.S.-China relations have sunk to their lowest point in decades as U.S. President Joe Biden has sought to leverage ties with allies and partners to counter Beijing's actions.
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COMMENTARY / World
Jan 19, 2022
The Made in China plan is back, and it’s better
State planners released a five-year smart manufacturing development plan in late December that aims to digitize 70% of the country's large enterprises.
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COMMENTARY / World
Jan 17, 2022
Regime change in the global economy
The Lewis turning point is being reached in developing countries as their expanding export sectors are absorbing the surplus labor in traditional sectors like agriculture.
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COMMENTARY / World
Jan 14, 2022
Are millennials the wealthiest generation? You better believe it.
Comparing generations is hard. That is in large part because as the world changes, so do the markers of success.
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EDITORIALS
Jan 14, 2022
Tokyo Stock Exchange might not be ready for ‘prime’ time just yet
The year's performance is a good sign as the TSE prepares for a restructuring in early April that is intended to revitalize corporate governance and attract global investors.
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COMMENTARY / World
Jan 13, 2022
The idea of 'capital as a strategy' has taken hold
Not only is capital not a strategy, but too much capital can eliminate the need for entrepreneurs and investors alike to have any strategy at all.
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BUSINESS
Jan 11, 2022
Omicron pushes Hong Kong’s import supply chain to brink of collapse
A slashing of flights that bring everything from Australian cherries to wagyu beef into the financial hub is set to raise costs and boost inflation
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COMMENTARY / World
Jan 10, 2022
The selective Sovietization of American capitalism
The soft budget constraints that socialist state-owned enterprises used to enjoy turned out to be one of the main reasons why Soviet-bloc economies failed.
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COMMENTARY / World / The Year Ahead: Reckonings
Jan 9, 2022
Reopening the world and ourselves
What have we learned about nationalism and globalization that we can carry into a post-pandemic future?
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COMMENTARY / World / The Year Ahead: Reckonings
Jan 7, 2022
Debt-for-climate swaps make sense
The suitability of conditional debt relief as a financing tool for low-income countries to tackle climate change is not always obvious.
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COMMENTARY / World / The Year Ahead: Reckonings
Jan 6, 2022
Advancing the trade cure
Trade liberalization and international economic cooperation can help the world weather whatever crisis comes its way.
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COMMENTARY / World / The Year Ahead: Reckonings
Jan 5, 2022
COVID-19 and the rise of digital capitalism
The pandemic has allowed the dominant players in digital industries to conduct a full-scale experiment regarding the virtual world's assimilation of the physical one.
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COMMENTARY / World
Jan 4, 2022
Forget black swans. We need to find the snow leopards.
Things to keep an eye on in 2022, the growing role of cities in the fight against climate change, the dawn of lab meat, and the resurgence of mass activism on a global scale.
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COMMENTARY / World
Jan 3, 2022
Is strategic cooperation between the U.S. and China possible?
Attitudes on both sides are hardening, with Washington and Beijing settling into a comfortable but unproductive certitude that it occupies the moral high ground.
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COMMENTARY / World / The Year Ahead: Reckonings
Jan 3, 2022
Restoring dynamism to development
Multilateral development institutions with a capacity to drive policy reform are key to securing robust, sustainable and inclusive growth in a post-pandemic world.
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COMMENTARY / World
Jan 2, 2022
Where to find cheaper alternatives to expensive stocks
Small companies in the U.S. are as cheap as they have ever been relative to the broad market.
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COMMENTARY / World / The Year Ahead: Reckonings
Jan 2, 2022
Recovering stronger together in 2022
The COVID-19 pandemic is far from over, but there is a ray of hope for a better tomorrow in both the health sector and the wider economy.
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COMMENTARY / World / The Year Ahead: Reckonings
Jan 1, 2022
No wiggle room ahead as world looks to move on from pandemic
The economic and social policies that countries around the world choose now as they look to move on from the pandemic will have consequences for decades to come.
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COMMENTARY / World
Dec 31, 2021
What inflation in 2022 will teach us about capitalism
Since the 1980s, capitalism has evolved to keep inflation under control. The risk now is that capitalism has embarked on a regime change.
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COMMENTARY / World
Dec 31, 2021
Sayonara and good riddance to 2021. Enter the Tiger.
There were many winners and losers in 2021, a year in which the health and economic impacts of the coronavirus once again dominated the headlines.

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