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Changing diets challenge sustainable global growth

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INT

Emerging markets are eating more animal based products; the shift has vast implications for trade and the environment

Pandemic will strengthen support for digital identity

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INT

Legal identity for all is one of the UN’s 2030 Sustainable Development Goals

Regional gender gaps face policy conflict

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INT

UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) have made gender equality a top priority, but progress is slow and uneven

Building African vaccine capacity will take time

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AFRICA

Efforts to build production capacity are emerging as supply deficits leave just 1% of Africans inoculated against COVID

African electricity access growth will miss SDG target

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AFRICA

Low electricity access inhibits economic growth in Sub-Saharan Africa

Big tech’s share of some finance segments will surge

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INT

The network-to-activity loop lets ‘big tech’ firms gain market share quickly, but the loop may be vicious not virtuous

Stimulating skills is key to emerging markets growth

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INT

Human capital will become as key to low-to-mid-income countries as it is for high-income ones

UK interest rate course to determine inequality level

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UNITED KINGDOM

Household wealth surged after 2013, especially for older and higher-income groups, but has fallen sharply since 2021

Bullish and bearish China growth view is reconcilable

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CHINA

China analysts are diverging between those growing more negative on the long-run prospects and those remaining bullish

Global governance reform will be hard in the Trump era

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INT

Voting at international financial institutions does not reflect GDP trends, leaving emerging markets with little voice