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US corporate duty of care faces reappraisal

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UNITED STATES

With the advent of President Joe Biden's administration, the country's experience with COVID-19 is becoming part of a new debate over whether healthcare should be a public good…

Pandemic deepens long-term risks to US women workers

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UNITED STATES

Women, especially those from minorities, are more likely to have dropped out of the labour force or moved to part-time or precarious employment. Jobs recovery has also been slower…

Prospects for China in 2017

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PROSPECTS 2017

Prospects for China in 2017.

Pandemic has worsened several US societal problems

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UNITED STATES

While the pandemic has both amplified and illuminated areas of racial, gender and economic inequality, it has also overshadowed a range of worsening societal problems that had…

Markets are downplaying PiS election risks in Poland

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POLAND

Despite PiS's costly spending pledges, its nationalist and populist views and its strong support for a controversial, Hungarian-style debt-relief scheme for holders of foreign…

Social anxieties will drive pre-poll unrest in Zambia

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ZAMBIA

In part, the crackdown aims to contain unrest driven by frustration at the Patriotic Front (PF) government's handling of the weak economy and rising crime. The recent spate of…

Low-growth economy will shape post-Obama US politics

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UNITED STATES

Populist discontent with existing economic policies and anger about economic inequalities have featured in the US presidential struggle between Trump and Clinton. These anxieties…

Xi may push Party too far in asserting control

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CHINA

Elite politics in China.

Hong Kong's fiscal largesse will fail to buy support

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HONG KONG

The budget aims to stimulate economic growth and help small businesses and lower-income residents by redistributing public funds amounting to 34 billion Hong Kong dollars (4.4…

Turkey may be edging towards capital controls

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TURKEY

A score below 100 indicates a pessimistic outlook -- the index has not exceeded 100 since March 2018. Increasingly frequent and heavy-handed interventions by the Turkish Central…