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WILL POORER COUNTRIES BENEFIT FROM INTERNATIONAL TAX Enjoy more audio and podcasts on iOS or Android. Developing countries are thirsty for revenue in general, and reliant on corporate tax in particular. In 2017 African countries raised 19% of GOVCOINS: THE DIGITAL CURRENCIES THAT WILL TRANSFORM Govcoins: The digital currencies that will transform finance – Weekly edition of The Economist for May 8th 2021. You've seen the news, now discover the story. EDUCATED VOTERS’ LEFTWARD SHIFT IS SURPRISINGLY OLD AND Every year, the 10% of voters with the most years of schooling gravitated towards left-wing parties, while the remaining 90% slid the other way. By 2000, this had gone on for so long that, as a VOTERS SHOULD CURB MEXICO’S POWER-HUNGRY PRESIDENT Voters should curb Mexico’s power-hungry president. I N A WORLD plagued by authoritarian populists, Mexico’s president has somehow escaped the limelight. Liberals furiously condemn the erosion THE ECONOMIST
The world at your fingertips. Subscribe for unlimited access to world-leading reporting and analysis. Subscriber-only benefits. Full access to all Economist digital products DO INCENTIVES OF CASH OR GIFTS FOR COVID-19 VACCINES WORK The value of the loot on offer varies. In parts of Beijing, Sinovac jabs come with two cartons of eggs. Elsewhere in China chicken wings, flour or free entry to parks are available. In Rajkot, an BRAZIL | JUN 5TH 2021 | THE ECONOMIST On the brink Brazil. Brazil. Special reports - Jun 5th 2021. Brazil: The captain and his country. The Amazon: Money trees. Politics: In need of reform. Sources and acknowledgments. AUCKLAND HAS BECOME THE WORLD’S MOST LIVEABLE CITY NEW ZEALAND has done a remarkable job of controlling covid-19. It has reported just 26 deaths from the disease, roughly one out of every 200,000 people. On
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WILL POORER COUNTRIES BENEFIT FROM INTERNATIONAL TAX Enjoy more audio and podcasts on iOS or Android. Developing countries are thirsty for revenue in general, and reliant on corporate tax in particular. In 2017 African countries raised 19% of GOVCOINS: THE DIGITAL CURRENCIES THAT WILL TRANSFORM Govcoins: The digital currencies that will transform finance – Weekly edition of The Economist for May 8th 2021. You've seen the news, now discover the story. EDUCATED VOTERS’ LEFTWARD SHIFT IS SURPRISINGLY OLD AND Every year, the 10% of voters with the most years of schooling gravitated towards left-wing parties, while the remaining 90% slid the other way. By 2000, this had gone on for so long that, as a VOTERS SHOULD CURB MEXICO’S POWER-HUNGRY PRESIDENT Voters should curb Mexico’s power-hungry president. I N A WORLD plagued by authoritarian populists, Mexico’s president has somehow escaped the limelight. Liberals furiously condemn the erosion HOW AMERICA AND CHINA DOMINATE GLOBAL BUSINESS Tech firms make up a quarter of the global stockmarket and the geographic mix has become strikingly lopsided. America and, increasingly, China are ascendant, accounting for 76 of GOVCOINS: THE DIGITAL CURRENCIES THAT WILL TRANSFORM Govcoins: The digital currencies that will transform finance – Weekly edition of The Economist for May 8th 2021. You've seen the news, now discover the story. THE CAPTAIN AND HIS COUNTRY The captain and his country. Brazil is backsliding. Politicians, businesses and voters must act before it is too late, says Sarah Maslin. O NE DAY in April, as Brazilian hospitals ran out of WHAT A WORK-FROM-HOME REVOLUTION MEANS FOR COMMERCIAL OFFICES THESE days are temples of indulgence as much as places of work. One Vanderbilt, a new skyscraper in Manhattan, has unveiled a restaurant run by Daniel Boulud, a Michelin-starred chef THE HISTORY AND FUTURE OF MERITOCRACY The Aristocracy of Talent: How Meritocracy Made the Modern World. By Adrian Wooldridge. Allen Lane; 496 pages; £25. To be published in America in
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