Chart: The Economist The poor world has ... Together these benefits ought to lead to higher growth in the poor world. In 2021 ...

Republicans love to blame everything they consider wrong with America on an epidemic of “wokeness”, by which they tend to ...

End-to-end encryption has conquered the world, despite dogged efforts to ban or limit its use. Today civilians enjoy access ...

The firm, which now goes by PwC rather than PricewaterhouseCoopers, at least spares Edwin’s memory the indignity of having ...

Chart: The Economist YouTube’s appeal makes sense ... across Africa in recent years has also helped. Between 2014 and 2021 the share of Africans getting their news from social media or the ...

In the rich world, annual price rises in the median country ... resurrecting an old narrative that central bankers dumped in 2021. More on this Inflation is down and a recession is unlikely.

Before the dotcom bust of 2000 Intel was the sixth-biggest company in the world by market capitalisation ... to cars and machine tools. In 2021, at the height of the covid-19 pandemic, an acute ...

At a bitcoin conference in Nashville days later, the biggest such get-together in the world, Mr Trump vowed to ... After China banned bitcoin in 2021, crypto-miners went looking for refuge.

This has been bad for Mexicans, whose energy bills have risen along with blackouts, and bad for the world, since Pemex ... Chart: The Economist AMLO has tried to revive the company’s glory ...

Whatever leverage the outside world may once have had for influencing ... and the logic of exclusion in Azerbaijan”. In a 2021 essay he described how the state demonises Armenians and domestic ...

The world’s water troubles can be summed ... affected around 1.6bn people between 2002 and 2021, killing nearly 100,000 and causing economic losses of over $830bn. Droughts in the same period ...

Europe is a world leader in clean-tech innovation and ... act like other major economies and build a genuine EU “foreign economic policy”: co-ordinating preferential trade agreements and ...