Category: World
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How were indigenous people in one of the whitest countries in Latin America able to gain political and economic influence?
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The Biden Administration’s substantial strict restrictions on the semiconductor industry in China hit the Chinese semiconductor industry hard. Though China has already been progressing toward semiconductor sufficiency, it will have to invest more in front-end manufacturing.
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For decades, Saudi Arabia’s economy heavily relied on its oil export industry. With the global economy pivoting toward renewable energy, the Kingdom’s development of a new mega-city, The Line, foreshadows the nation’s bold endeavor for economic diversification.
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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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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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Tents line the Galle Face Green in the capital city of Colombo as protestors take to the streets in retaliation for the recent economic crisis in the country…
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Fiscal paradise or tax havens, until the 2008 financial crisis, were generally considered “exotic sideshows” of the world economy…
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Russia is employing several tools in order to keep its economy afloat after a barrage of sanctions from some of the world’s biggest economies.
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