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Will India's fast growth continue? The question is not whether Narendra Modi is re-elected, but whether he—and the country’s heavyweight economy—will evolve

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Jacked-up parking fees have become municipal money-spinners for Chinese authorities. The creative money-raising demonstrates just how desperate the country’s local governments are to find new sources of income 👇

Chinese authorities are now addicted to traffic fines

What that tells you about the country’s economic woes

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It is just not that fulfilling 👇

Why you should never retire

Pleasure cruises, golf and tracing the family tree are not that fulfilling

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India must make much deeper changes if it is to sustain its growth

Improved human capital and a better relationship between the centre and the states will be crucial

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Persistent conservative norms in India can discourage women from working outside the home. But there are ways to nudge them into jobs while assuaging the fears of their families 👇

Can women-only factories help more Indian women into work?

Ola, an electric-scooter manufacturer, is trying to find out

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This week on our “Drum Tower” podcast, @DSORennie visits China’s Xinjiang region and asks what Ramadan reveals about Uyghurs’ religious freedom 🎧

How the Chinese state is hollowing out religion in Xinjiang

Our weekly podcast on China. This week our co-host travels to Xinjiang during Ramadan to see the impact of new regulations on Uyghurs’ religious freedom

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Time famously speeds up when you are having fun. But it slows down, it turns out, when you look at something worth remembering 👇

Memorable images make time pass more slowly

The effect could give our brains longer to process information

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The cost-of-living crisis isn’t going anywhere just yet. EIU’s latest index shows where prices are highest 👇

These are the world’s most expensive cities

EIU’s cost-of-living index shows where prices are highest

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On social media Chinese youngsters shake glass piggy banks containing their collections of gold beans. Why has itty-bitty bling become their investment of choice? Photo: Getty Images

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It’s been more than 20 years since China joined the World Trade Organisation and integrated itself fully into the world trading system. On this week’s “Money Talks” podcast, we discuss how things have changed since then 🎧

How much worse can US-China relations get?

Our podcast on markets, the economy and business. This week, the future of trade between the two countries

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“In 2020 [Donald] Trump was beaten by a broad coalition that included everyone from progressive Democrats to principled Republicans,” writes @SarahLongwell25 in a guest essay. “It must regroup again if [Joe] Biden is to win in November”

A conservative strategist on how Joe Biden can win

Sarah Longwell says “double-haters” will decide the election

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Occasionally, works of investigative reporting are so incisive that they bring down a company. But others that lack sufficient incriminatory evidence tend to resort to rabble-rousing rhetoric 👇

How ruthless is Amazon, really?

It is too simplistic to portray business as a battle of might versus right

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On social media Chinese youngsters shake glass piggy banks containing their collections of gold beans. Why has itty-bitty bling become their investment of choice? 👇

China’s young people are rushing to buy gold

They seek security in troubled times

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How Ted Lasso killed Tony Soprano 👇

A golden age of TV is losing its shine

How Ted Lasso killed Tony Soprano

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How should we make sense of the gulf between young men and women? It’s complicated. But better schooling for boys might help 👇

Making sense of the gulf between young men and women

It’s complicated. But better schooling for boys might help

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Russia's superior firepower gives it a big advantage in Ukraine. The infusion of weaponry from America’s latest aid should help Ukraine fend off Russian offensives. But it is likely to remain on the back foot 👇

America’s $61bn aid package buys Ukraine time

It must use it wisely

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Governments are asking not what they can do for business but what business can do for them. CEOs are learning to adapt to a world in which their success can turn on politicians’ whims. The outlines of a playbook are slowly taking shape 👇

How to handle populists: a CEO’s survival guide

Western businesses are learning to live with volatile electoral politics around the world

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For years new home-buyers in America have enjoyed lower housing payments than renters. But today the choice between buying and renting looks very different. Read why 👇

Is it cheaper to rent or buy property?

We crunch the house-price data across every American county—and make a surprising finding

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José Eustasio Rivera’s novella evokes Latin America’s colonial history, when conquistadors pillaged jungles and slaughtered inhabitants in pursuit of riches. It can also be read as a pioneering work of eco-literature 👇

“The Vortex”, written 100 years ago, anticipated eco-literature

One of Latin America’s most important books is also timely

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His captivity made up only part of his life, he insisted. He had done so much else before he was imprisoned. And he did plenty afterwards, too. While he tried not to think about those years, however, they would not go away Photo: AP

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“Freakonomics” was at the apex of a wave of books that promised a quirky—yet rigorous—analysis of things that the conventional wisdom had missed. The approach was fun, but has fallen out favour 👇

Why “Freakonomics” failed to transform economics

The approach was fun, but has fallen out of favour

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