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Industry 4.0 will arrive unevenly

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INTERNATIONAL

Outlook for industry 4.0.

Targets in Iran’s development plan are unrealistic

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IRAN

Iran's development plans are macro-level guidelines which are then translated into micro-level policies and programmes. The 2022-26 plan has seven pillars: economic;…

Brazilian nutrition policies have wide application

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BRAZIL/INT

Globally, undernutrition remains stubbornly high, even as overnutrition rises: an estimated 800 million people are calorie deficient and around 2 billion experience micronutrient…

Egypt's social policies will depend on deeper change

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EGYPT

Egypt's social protection programmes.

Strong dollar will threaten global gold market

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INTERNATIONAL

Gold market outlook.

EU green ambitions are strongly reflected in budget

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EU

Overall, some 30% of the budget will involve climate-related spending. One of the key reforms concerns the EU’s own resources mechanism to finance spending, with plans to…

Murky politics to hit South Africa power utility plans

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SOUTH AFRICA

Tsotsi faces a potential no-confidence vote over his handling of the utility's mounting crises which are imperiling power supplies and recently spurred the utility's second 'junk'…

Washington may eventually compromise with Pyongyang

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NORTH KOREA

North Korea's nuclear weapons programme.

China's virtual reality plans go beyond the metaverse

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CHINA

The plan actually covers not only the fully immersive digital environments that the term 'virtual reality' (VR) refers to in English, but also 'augmented reality' (AR), in which…

Pyongyang’s rising cyberthreats are hard to combat

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NORTH KOREA

On November 30 the same trio plus Australia announced coordinated sanctions, in response to Pyongyang’s launch on November 21 of a military reconnaissance satellite. For the first…