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Digital currencies lag puts crypto investors at risk

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INTERNATIONAL

Some 87 countries, accounting for over 90% of global GDP, are exploring the potential of central bank digital currencies

Services trade is crucial to emerging growth prospects

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Services trade receives far less focus than goods trade but exports of services outpaced goods shipments from 2000-16

Big tech’s share of some finance segments will surge

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

Population trends pose development challenges

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Just 2% of global population gain in 2016-40 will be in advanced countries; 56% will be in Africa and the Middle East

Online disinformation campaigns will proliferate

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As polls approach in regions such as Europe, Canada and Australia, disinformation has become a major worry.

US pipeline hack to make ransomware risks a priority

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US Colonial Pipeline’s operations have yet to be restored after last week’s crippling ransomware attack

Inclusion and privacy policies may lag cashless growth

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INTERNATIONAL

Cashless spending is surging, giving customers and traders more flexibility and reducing ‘organisational’ costs

US-China tariffs will prompt supply chain switching

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Industrial policy in both countries aims to stimulate indigenous manufacturing

COVID-19 dips demand in Turkey's key European market

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TURKEY

COVID-19-related sag in demand in Europe depresses exports in mid-2020 as government policy fuels import surge