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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

Emerging markets growing old faster than growing rich

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INT

Emerging markets are ageing at lower incomes than advanced markets, a policy challenge that will influence GDP prospects

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

A resolution to Ghana’s debt crisis may take time

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GHANA

President Nana Akufo-Addo on July 1 announced that Ghana would seek IMF assistance after months of refusing to do so

China's waste ban will encourage recycling innovation

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INT

On January 1, China, the world's largest waste market, banned 24 grades of waste imports to meet environmental goals

Vulnerability deepens East African food crisis risks

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EAST AFRICA

Increasingly frequent droughts combine with conflict and market disruptions to heighten the risk of regional food crises

Risks and opportunities 2021: Global economy

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INTERNATIONAL

Economic and health policies are key to the West and many developing nations emerging swiftly from double-dip recession

Healthier housing dynamics would boost Chinese growth

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CHINA

The authorities have pledged to reduce housing oversupply and stabilise prices but the multi-speed market is a concern

Little scope for much-needed rise in budget spending

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INT

High demands on increasingly strained public budgets are fuelling fiscal sustainability fears and bond market sell-offs

A China crisis is bigger systemic threat than markets

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INT

China’s influence on the global real economy is a bigger risk than events in fragile Italy, Turkey and Argentina