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Technology delivers mixed development gains in Africa

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AFRICA

However, early hopes that digital technology would rapidly overcome the continent’s infrastructural weaknesses and enable governments to achieve 2030 UN Sustainable Development…

China’s ‘Two Meetings’ set out new policy goals

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CHINA

A new Hong Kong anti-sedition law and unprecedented omission of a GDP growth target overshadowed other important policy developments.

Russia introduces barcodes to enforce food standards

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RUSSIA

Organisers say the vast majority of dairy processing firms have registered for a scheme intended to reassure consumers that what they are buying is genuine.

Pandemic drives changes to global illegal drugs trade

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INTERNATIONAL

The pandemic's impacts are unevenly distributed and mediated by factors such as drug type, business model, supply, manufacture and distribution chains, and intensity of…

Concerns over AMLO’s plans will only grow in Mexico

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MEXICO

AMLO's progress.

China’s rural digitisation will pick up speed

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CHINA

It aims to raise the economic performance of agriculture as part of the broader push to national self-reliance and the improvement of services in rural areas. The upgrading of…

India has Punjab security threat in check

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INDIA

The Golden Temple is the holiest shrine in Sikhism, the dominant religion in Punjab. Sikh separatist insurgency was a substantial problem for India in the 1980s and early 1990s…

ASEAN differences will slow RCEP talks

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ASEAN

These talks have stalled over the scope of tariff reforms and conflicting bilateral agreements. However, following the likely demise of the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP), the…