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There is more to Singapore’s sister city than a stroll down memory lane | Asia (2025)
Because the state makes it impossible not to be | Asia (2025)
The Emerald petro-state is riding high off tech and pharma—for now | Europe (2025)
Spain. Sunshine in Malaga Valley. But will Málaga fall victim to its own success? | Europe (2025)
It will have to confront the charge of elitism | Leaders (2025)
Argentina’s president is idolised by the Trumpian right. They should get to know him better | Leaders (2024)
This map juxtaposes the population of India with that of entire countries, to give perspective on the soon-to-be most populous country. (2024)
Reshaping the French capital and its banlieues | Europe (2024)
After pushing its economy to the brink, Egypt gets a bail-out. But a record-setting investment from the UAE will not fix its chronic problems | ... (2024)
Cities: one of America’s great cities has a fresh chance to rebuild itself. People feared a doom loop. Reality has been more surprising | Leaders (2024)
A southern success story | Europe Madrid. A moment in the sun. (2024)
The race to become the next economic superpower | Finance & economics (2024)
Rivals on the Rhine. It is not how things used to be | Europe (2023)
The fight against deforestation is going better. But it needs cash, cops—and a better property register | The Americas (2023)
Deutschland AG’s bright light bulb | Business (2023)
Special report, the world economy. Introducing industrial policy is a big mistake, argues Callum Williams | Special report (2023)
Can Falcon soar? It has released the world’s most powerful open-source model, and will soon launch an AI company | Business (2023)
Richer Asian countries helping poorer ones will shape the region’s geopolitics. China isn’t the only country giving out goodies in Asia. Japan and... (2023)
The new Brazil. It is a land of “roughs”, not playboys. The hinterland is getting political and cultural clout | The Americas (2023)
Investing in the neighborhood. Asia’s economies are coming closer together. That will benefit them, and the world. Links between the region’s count... (2023)
A new Era of Asian commerce. How the continent at the heart of globalization is reinventing itself. The continent’s future will involve less Weste... (2023)
The desert city of Amman is running out of water. Meanwhile, officials fixate on gleaming visions of growth, perpetuating the fantasy that urban dy... (2023)
Commodities in the 21st century. A growing, greening world will be ravenous for Latin America’s commodities. Will it deliver? | The Americas (2023)
It must not squander the opportunity of the next commodity boom | Leaders (2023)
Narendra Modi sees his country’s digital public infrastructure as an Indian Belt and Road Initiative | Asia Once known as the “India stack”, the... (2023)
De-growers of the world, unite! | Europe Stop the economy, lefty Europeans want to get off. “Panels of citizens can advise what is wasteful ... (2023)
Rising rates are hurting some of its brightest economic stars. Some of the continent’s brightest economic stars are in serious trouble (2023)
A deal for Ghana is the first test case for a new approach. IMF, World Bank, the Paris Club, China and lending in Africa (2023)
The government is favoring firms at the heart of a tech transformation. We crunch the numbers on the country’s most valuable startups | Business (2023)
Trying to fight climate change and raise growth risks doing neither well | Britain (2023)
Puerto Rico is part of the United States but it often doesn’t really feel like it. Mostly because while the rest of the country has prospered, Pu... (2026)
Francine Lacqua sits down with Ajay Banga to discuss his journey to becoming president of the World Bank Group. From his childhood in India to a ca... (2026)
Is this the happiest place on earth? (2025)
Unveil the stunning secret of New Zealand—a paradise losing its young talent! With just 5.3 million people, this remote gem boasts top-notch livin... (2025)
The oil giant is once again at the centre of government plans for economic growth and job creation. But Petrobras has a chequered past, including d... (2025)
Mexico’s $7.5 billion interoceanic corridor aims to ease a major chokehold in a global shipping mess and rival the Panama Canal. The stretch of lan... (2024)
and should there be a permanent host? (2024)
Switzerland is populated with billionaires — there's one for every 80,000 people. As of 2022, the country was home to an estimated 110 billionaires... (2024)
Singapore has transformed itself from a colonial trading port to a buzzing financial center in just a matter of decades. It’s been held up as an ex... (2024)
Why Indonesia's Economy Matters and Its Unexpected Growth | Indonesian Economy (2023)
Denmark is building a record-breaking tunnel to Germany. (2023)
Mumbai, India’s Transforming MEGACITYFive transportation megaprojects are under construction throughout Mumbai, a city of 25 million. This short do... (2023)
Why West Virginia is so Poor (2023)
The $1.5 Billion Plan to Clean Paris' River (2023)
The Brazilian city of Manaus sits alone in the middle of the Amazon, and yet it still grew to become the seventh largest city in the country. So wh... (2023)
Teton County in Wyoming is home to the widest income divide in America, with a median house price of more than $5 million and an average income of ... (2023)
Rampant inflation, a booming black market for US dollars and crippling debt - welcome to Argentina, one of the world's most dysfunctional economies... (2023)
Samsung’s Dangerous Dominance over South Korea (2023)
This project is worth the same as the country's entire GDP.Correction: The map at 3:41 shows the Walvis Bay. The Port of Luderitz is located furthe... (2023)
Why Silicon Valley is here. One radio engineer had a plan. And it worked. (2023)
Rwanda to become the next Singapore? (2023)
Why do societies fail? With lessons from the Norse of Iron Age Greenland, deforested Easter Island and present-day Montana, Jared Diamond ... (2023)
From New York to Austin, America’s biggest cities are littered with vacant plots of land because property tax bills can skyrocket once vacant lots ... (2023)
Why 82% of Mexico is Empty (2023)
This digital twin is turning an area of Milan into Italy's new tech capital. (2023)
Why a Billionaire is Building a $400BN City in the US Desert We spoke to US billionaire Marc Lore about his plans to build Telosa... (2023)
How Norway Got So Insanely Rich (2023)
Why wasn't Portugal conquered by Spain? (2023)
Is it really possible to fix Dubai? (2023)
Egypt plans to green its desert Egypt is growing at two million people a year. Urban infrastructures can'... (2023)
For decades, Montreal has used generous tax subsidies to boost its video game industry. The policy has succeeded, but the city may need to keep the... (2022)
A Colorado resort town reliant on summer visitors has halted tourism marketing because an affordable housing crisis means businesses don't have eno... (2021)
Posh private hospitals give world-class care — and serve lattes. At government facilities, cancer patients sleep on the sidewalk. But the prime min... (2018)
The seeds of the apparently sudden collapse of Venezuela’s once-proud oil industry were sown two decades ago. (2018)
In the late 1920s, the Ford Motor Company bought up millions of acres of land in Brazil. They loaded boats with machinery and supplies, and shipped... (2018)
One year after Hurricane Maria, The Takeaway travels to Puerto Rico to explore how identity has changed on the island. (2018)
Andrew McAfee, co-director of the MIT Initiative on the Digital Economy, explains how the U.S. economy is growing and actually using less and less ... (2019)
In light of sea-level-rise threats, local organizations have begun to shift their missions towards resources and solutions in greater Miami that co... (2018)
Andrew Zimbalist, the Robert A. Woods professor of economics at Smith College, joins CFR's James M. Lindsay to discuss the political and economic c... (2018)
The bestselling author of Investment Biker is back from the ultimate road trip: a three-year drive around the world that would ultimately set the G... (2025)
"A surreal, lyrical work of narrative nonfiction that portrays how the largest domestic oil discovery in half a century transformed a forgotten cor... (2018)
Legendary investor Jim Rogers gives us his view of the world on a twenty-two-month, fifty-two-country motorcycle odyssey in his bestselling busines... (2025)
Chris Heivly released Build the Fort: The Startup Community Builder’s Field Guide. I encourage you to get Chris’s book if you are a startup communi... (2023)
Development as Freedom book. Read 238 reviews from the world's largest community for readers. By the winner of the 1998 Nobel Prize in Economics, a... (2020)
START-UP NATION addresses the trillion dollar question: How is it that Israel-- a country of 7.1 million, only 60 years old, surrounded by enemies,... (2020)
Earning the Rockies book. Read 238 reviews from the world's largest community for readers. An incisive portrait of the American landscape that show... (2020)
Hillbilly Elegy book. Read 25,407 reviews from the world's largest community for readers. From a former marine and Yale Law School graduate, a powe... (2020)
"An alternative to the Acemoglu/Robinson thesis. Economic history owes a lot to geographic endowment; for example, Africa lacked large mammals that... (2018)
" If the Baldwin book doesn’t convince you of the importance of trade, this account of its historical role should. It is no coincidence that the gr... (2018)
"An essential book for understanding how modern trade works via global supply chains. An antidote to the protectionist nonsense being peddled by so... (2018)
"This is the story of the Great Depression as told through the lives of the central bankers who tried and failed to deal with the crisis. As one, M... (2018)
"The best explanation of the “institutional” school of economics. Why “inclusive institutions” promote growth and extractive ones don’t." - The Eco... (2018)
When asked simple questions about global trends—what percentage of the world’s population live in poverty; why the world’s population is increasing... (2018)
"My new favorite book of all time." --Bill Gates "A terrific book...[Pinker] recounts the progress across a broad array of metrics, from health... (2018)
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