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Reform of Japan's working practices grows more urgent

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JAPAN

Labour regulation and workers' rights in Japan.

Despite wellbeing concerns, US adults are happier

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UNITED STATES

Biles provided a high-profile but not uncommon example of the deterioration of individual wellbeing in the United States. Many public health indicators were pointing in that…

India's Modi will struggle to keep promises by 2019

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INDIA

Evaluation of the Modi government's performance half-way into its term.

Peru teachers' strike ends, but will not be the last

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PERU

However, the government and the strikers failed to reach agreement on the key topic of institutionalising periodic evaluations of teachers’ competence. Marilu Marten’s future as…

Mexico's early reforms show mixed record

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MEXICO

Reform efforts two years on.

More Mexico jobs will not necessarily mean good jobs

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MEXICO

It shows that by the end of the year, 56.6 million people were employed, 3.5 million more than in the same period of 2020 and 1.5 million more than in the first quarter of 2020…

Saudi bureaucratic lag will hamper change

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SAUDI ARABIA

The state is central both in the economy and in the lives of citizens. Government has been the key driver of economic diversification, but it also poses major obstacles to private…

Centralisation will curtail China’s adaptability

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CHINA

The negative consequences of policy centralisation in China.

Few anti-poverty efforts likely in Mexico pre-election

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MEXICO

Poverty.

Nepotism scandal will pose reform risks in Paraguay

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PARAGUAY

The move follows a mounting nepotism scandal known as ‘nepobabies’ -- the appointment without any open selection process of many close relatives as ‘advisers’ to politicians in…