What's Changing? - Emerging Markets
Please see below selected recent emerging markets-related change. (Until mid-2018 the focus was primarily on Africa.)
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June 2020
Economics
What's Changing? - Money
Fundamental shifts in the world of work are eroding traditional social safety nets. Could a universal basic income (UBI) be the solution? UBI isn’t a new idea, according to the Basic Income Earth Network, which says it was originally ignored, but growing fears surrounding job automation have stoked an interest in basic income.
Please see below selected recent basic income-related change.
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What's Changing? - Economics
Please see below selected recent economic developments.
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- What's New? - Economics
- What's Changing? - Economics: Money
- What's Changing? - Economics: Emerging Markets
- What's Changing? - Economics: Trade
May 2020
What's New? - Economics
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What's Changing? - Food
Please see below selected recent food-related change.
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May 2020
What's Changing? - Trade
Please see below key recent developments concerning trade:
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April 2020
- At least 80 countries and territories enforced export restrictions on medical equipment such as face masks and ventilators in early 2020. This protectionist trend is threatening global supply chains and ramping up prices for much-needed gear, the World Trade Organisation warned.
January 2020
What's Changing? - Sufficiency
Please see below selected recent sufficiency-related change.
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February 2020
What's New? - Money
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Of Mice and Men - Redux?
10 years on from chastening and often stunning images of the impact that global recession is having - right now. The Great Depression Revisited? The clothes and the cars and the laptops suggest "not yet", but over the coming months, who knows?
Still, the blooming sunflower in the last shot is a touching piece of photojournalism, suggesting that hope springs eternal or, as Roy Harper put it, "through all destruction flies new dawn".