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Central bank digital currency launch is getting closer

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INTERNATIONAL

Fed Chair Jerome Powell is lukewarm on digital currencies but the multiple impacts of COVID-19, and the progress of China and other states on CBDCs, have reignited calls for a…

UK AI Summit will promote some global cooperation

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UK

It led to international commitments from major developing countries, and brought together US and Chinese governments, which have thus far sought to shape global AI principles…

Better risk pricing can unlock billions in investment

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INTERNATIONAL

Pricing political risk.

Firms are key to advancing equality and productivity

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INTERNATIONAL

Firm-level inequality.

Rigorous research will boost cross-border investment

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INTERNATIONAL

Measuring political risk

Weaker finance context would test all emerging markets

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INTERNATIONAL

These markets are benefitting from the softer US dollar and improved investor perceptions of central bank credibility. However, destabilising factors loom on the horizon.

E-commerce market will settle to steady growth

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INTERNATIONAL

The pandemic sped up the expansion of e-commerce worldwide. However, growth rates are now reverting from 26% in 2020 and 19% in 2021 towards rates closer to 10%. Shoppers still…

Export ban would boost China's lead in solar panels

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CHINA

The goal seems to be to protect Chinese firms’ market dominance in this sector rather than to retaliate against foreign export controls targeting China. The level of Chinese…

Treaty will help to protect the seas globally

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INTERNATIONAL

The high seas, or international waters, account for around 60% of the world’s oceans. They have, until now, been a largely ungoverned space, exposed to unrestricted shipping…

Technical hurdles may block China nuclear power plans

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CHINA

China's nuclear programme.