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Pressure on Pakistan’s Sharif will grow markedly

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PAKISTAN

The prime minister is contending with several difficult situations

High food and metals prices will outlast the conflict

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INT

Russia accounts for 1.7% of world GDP but a sizeable share of supplies of fertiliser, fuels and some foods and metals

Giant containerships may have reached natural limits

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INTERNATIONAL

Building ULCS of >15,000 TEU has made shipping more efficient but failed to consider other stakeholders such as ports

The pandemic has worsened global cooperation prospects

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INT

Economic stagnation and employment or livelihood crises are most feared by executives surveyed worldwide

Geoeconomic fragmentation will reduce long-term growth

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INT

Several studies estimate the global cost of geoeconomic confrontation, which is newly in the top three WEF global risks

COVID-19 crisis complicates nations’ climate financing

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INT

Leaders will consider how to fund and reduce the costs of climate change with COVID-19 crisis costs still looming large

New Panama Canal highlights ambition of Nicaragua plan

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NICARAGUA

The expansion of the Panama Canal gives a sense of both the opportunities and the risks facing the Nicaraguan project