Author: theeconreview
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Hosting the 2022 FIFA World Cup was one of Qatar’s biggest achievements of the past decade. However, instead of being able to make the most of the potential benefits, the country was left scrambling to fulfill the obligations of a post that ultimately made it worse off than when it first made its bid in…
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With Europe facing an energy crisis, grid politics is increasingly defining its political landscape…
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The German capital, Berlin, a city once known for its low rent, now faces a housing crisis, driven by a sharp increase in rent prices and unsuccessful policies.
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Dozens of government officials have violated laws on stock trades, raising the question of corruption and lack of transparency in the government.
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Tech companies in the United States have incredible autonomy over how they regulate their platforms. But with current legislation in Congress and cases in the Supreme Court, how we view big tech, and how we interact in the digital sphere, is likely to change.
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Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva was elected for his third term as president over Jair Bolsonaro, a change signifying a drastically different policy regime for Brazil as compared to Bolsonaro’s deleterious free-market model of governance.
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Discrimination against women in the workplace has been gaining increasing attention, eventually leading to the Chinese government passing an amendment to the Women’s Rights and Interests Protection Law. Whether this amendment will have any success or not remains to be seen, however.
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Liz Truss’s tenure as the British PM began with global markets sinking at her approach to rekindling the trickle-down economics of the 1980s. The plan was abandoned shortly thereafter, but the damage to her cabinet’s credibility was already done.
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On June 2022, the United States hit a 40-year high of 9.2 percent inflation rate…
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The amount of power women hold in the American economy.
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In the past two decades, institutional investment in private equity funds has skyrocketed…
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At the very beginning of the Covid-19 pandemic, former President Donald Trump paused student loan repayments, causing millions of Americans to emit a collective sigh of relief during a maelstrom of layoffs, shutdowns, and hardship…
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