The US Government Shutdown

Is the standoff in Washington DC starting to do serious harm to the US economy?

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China’s New Silk Road Comes to Pakistan

China is lending billions to Pakistan in an ambitious attempt to disrupt global trade

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Board of the Problem

The number of female executives in the UK’s biggest companies remains stubbornly low.

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Selling Romance

Have dating apps reduced romance to a commodity?

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Bill Gates Makes His Pitch

The mega-philanthropist is in Davos raising money to fight infectious diseases

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The Great China Slowdown

China's economy is slowing down. What does it mean for the rest of the world?

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Will Tanzania's Drone Industry Take Off?

The drones in Africa used for surveying and mapping

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A Deepening Crisis in Venezuela

Two rival presidents, oil sanctions and hyperinflation

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Huawei and the Trade War

Will indictments against China's tech giant overshadow US trade talks?

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Keeping your Eggs on Ice

More and more women are freezing their eggs in their twenties - is it a waste of money?

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Peak Smartphone

Are Apple and Samsung running out of people to sell their smartphones to?

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The Burning Question

Climate Change: Can the world economy continue to grow without burning fossil fuels?

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Brexit: No Deal, No Food?

If the UK crashes out of the EU, how will it affect the country's supplies of fresh food?

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When to Pursue your Dream

At what point should you give up your day-job to pursue a "side-hustle" full-time?

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The Future of Fashion Retail

Will online shopping and AI combine to kill or enhance the high street clothing store?

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The Body Disposal Business

Funereal solutions on an overcrowded planet

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Taxing the Rich

Does taxing rich people more put the brakes on innovation?

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Poverty and Corruption in Nigeria

The economics of Nigeria's presidential election

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The education scam

The scam universities preying on African students

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Rational partner choice

Should your head trump your heart when it comes to seeking lifelong love?

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Capitalism in crisis?

Is the era of globalisation, unfettered markets and billionaires drawing to a close?

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Where are the women in Hollywood?

Are women finally breaking through off screen in the film industry?

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Businesses preparing for Brexit

Exporters express anxiety at the lack of a trade deal with just six weeks left to go

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Zombie statistics

How bogus stats can get repeated again and again until they end up influencing policy

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Is healthy eating affordable?

Poor diet can cause diabetes and cancer but do you have a choice if your budget is tight?

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Is it time to regulate social media?

Should Facebook and others take responsibility for what appears on their platforms?

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Bad blood in Silicon Valley

The startup scandal that shook confidence in the tech investment scene

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The family tree business

What can you really learn about your heritage from a home DNA testing kit?

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Who's monetising your DNA?

Should the collection of vast genetic databases be dominated by private companies?

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Fix my gadgets!

As appliances get harder and more expensive to mend, should we demand a right to repair?

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Overworked doctors

Are health services wilfully blind to the dangerously long hours worked by junior medics?

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Twenty-first century monopolies

Is current monopoly legislation equipped to regulate Big Tech?

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Is a falling currency a good thing?

Does a falling currency help or harm the economy?

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A very sweet episode

Elizabeth Hotson tracks the path of sugar from a luxury good to a working class staple.

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Big Sugar

Is the sugar industry's relationship with US politics just a little bit too sweet?

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Women in a man's world

In a world designed by men for men, women often come off worst

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Education in India: In need of reform?

Too much emphasis on exams and academia might not develop workforce employers need.

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Ukraine's corruption problem

Ahead of the presidential elections, the country grapples with conflicts and corruption.

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More Brexit blues for business

A continued political crisis in the UK means more uncertainty for businesses

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Heineken in Africa

The brewer is accused of complicity with Africa's murkiest politics

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Neverending Brexit?

As the UK parliament votes to delay Brexit, businesses brace for yet more uncertainty

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The periodic table turns 150

Are critical chemical elements of the periodic table in dangerously short supply?

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Is humankind on the verge of disaster?

Academics are assessing the odds of a catastrophe taking place sometime soon.

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Ukraine's troubles with Mariupol

Recent partial blockade by Russia hampers business

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A basic income for all?

Would a Universal Basic Income help solve inequality, or make it worse?

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Brexit: Oil, fish and bargaining chips

How is the Scottish city of Aberdeen coping with the UK's imminent exit from the EU?

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Ukraine: Trading across the front line

The economy of Russian occupied territories in Ukraine

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The essay cheats

People will write your university assignments for you - for a price

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A hundred years of women in law

Why are so few women in the top jobs?

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Is pan-African trade a pipe dream?

Can the continent remove trade barriers and create a billion-person internal market?

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Italy embraces China

Rome's decision to sign up to China's belt and road initiative has proved controversial

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Alexa, what are you doing to the internet?

Voice assistant apps are about to transform the economics of the web

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India's fugitive diamond billionaire

The rise and fall of Indian jeweller Nirav Modi

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Brexit: May reaches out

The British prime minister looks for a new deal to solve the deadlock over Brexit

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Bitcoin bounces back

Cryptocurrencies are on the rebound, but do they make any more sense?

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The listening device in your pocket

Does the proliferation of microphones in our gadgets mean anyone can eavesdrop on us?

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Millennial burnout

Are millennials working too hard?

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When big business sponsors the arts

Should galleries take money from the likes of big oil?

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An expensive democracy

India will spend billions of dollars on its general election this year

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Disney goes to war with Netflix

Is the market for streaming services getting too saturated?

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WhatsApp in India

Are fake news and rumours still proliferating on the app as India prepares for elections?

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The death of the local newspaper

How the decline of the local newspaper industry is affecting democracy

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Pakistan's young entrepreneurs

How the country’s young businesses are making a mark in fashion, beauty, music and tech

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Should prostitution be a normal profession?

How best to help sex workers: Full decriminalisation versus abolition

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TED2019: Space junk, rockets and aliens

Companies set on exploring the cosmos converge on the TED conference in Vancouver.

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TED2019: Facebook, Twitter and democracy

Jane Wakefield reports from the Ted conference in Vancouver

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The true cost of periods

Is it time to rethink the way we manage menstruation?

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Pricing in climate change

Are markets and companies beginning to grasp the threat of global warming?

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The global affordable housing crisis

Is rent control the answer to the increasing cost of housing in the rich world?

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When computer glitches ruin lives

Imagine losing your home, your job or your reputation, all because of a computer error

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Youtube: Cracking down on crackpots

What the video-sharing site needs to do to stop promoting dangerous conspiracy theories

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What young Indians want

As India holds elections, getting decent jobs is top of the agenda for most young voters

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The mega factory that never was

Taiwanese manufacturer Foxconn is causing a political headache for President Trump

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A four-day week?

The campaign for a four-day working week is gaining traction, particularly in the UK

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The value of domestic work

Housework and caring - an essential but overlooked part of the economy

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The price of bread

This global food staple used to account for half of some people's income

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Netflix moves into Africa

The video streaming service has announced a series of original African productions

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India's caste quota controversy

Is PM Modi's tinkering with the reservation system just an election ploy?

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Rebuilding an economy after two cyclones

In Mozambique, Cyclones Idai and Kenneth did tremendous damage to the lives of millions

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Disabled on Wall Street

Getting more disabled people into the workforce

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The coming floods

With the sea level rising, will the world's coastal cities find themselves underwater?

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The cyber arms race

Was the 2016 NotPetya attack a portend of devastating cyber-wars in the future?

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Climbing the student debt mountain

Could a new scheme alleviate the crippling cost of university fees for young Americans?

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The magic money tree

Should governments spend more money?

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A new port in India

India's bid to capture a slice of global shipping

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The meat-free burger

Can a burger help save the planet?

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Education for all

How can educators ensure that every child in the world has access to a decent school?

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The trillion dollar coach

What Silicon Valley learned from the American football coach Bill Campbell

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The plastic in the ocean

Why plastic ends up there and how to stop it

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India election: Modi's report card

Fergus Nicoll travels through Indian Prime Minister Modi's home constituency of Varanasi

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Europe votes for uncertainty

With the EU parliament becoming more fragmented, how will it affect business sentiment?

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Romantic fraud

The cruel multi-million-dollar business of scamming lonely hearts online

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Is Google too big?

Is Google's share of our attention and data too dominant? We ask Eric Schmidt

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A turbulent time for low cost airlines?

Is the industry suffering in Europe after years of relentless expansion?

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Jobs for prisoners

The challenge of getting ex-offenders back into work

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The cost of farmed Atlantic salmon

How has it become so popular and what does that mean for the environment?

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Is it time to tax robots?

With ever more jobs being automated, should the automatons be taxed the same as humans?

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Oil, guns and pollution

Oil giant Shell tells us why it struggles to clean up its operations in the Niger Delta

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The rise and fall of viral marketing

Can a bear in an ad help sell more washing machines?

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