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Roads Image: on visualcapitalist.com Images and Data: on visualcapitalist.com Research and Development Graphs: on ourworldindata.com Economic Freedom Image: on visualcapitalist.com Mapped: The State of Economic Freedom in 2023 The concept of economic freedom serves as a vital framework for evaluating the extent to which individuals and businesses have the freedom to make economic decisions. In …
Image: Valery Sidelnykov on Shutterstock Juan Villoro Humanity is getting dumber and dumber, as evidenced by the international success of the Kardashians and the Mexican success of Acapulco Shore. Photo: Ali Pazani on Pexels This is not speculation but scientific fact. According to the “Flynn effect”, used to measure the collective level of intelligence, the …
Antonio Navalón Today’s society is measured by its inability to define and clarify identities. If it is difficult enough to make a living, now the new generations have to face the mirror or a questionnaire and ask themselves whether or not they are binary. The …
Antonio Navalón In 1911, Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill – who then served as First Lord of the Admiralty – decided to change from coal to oil as fuel for the imperial naval fleet. And from that moment on, the whole world was configured with a …
Asia and the Pacific are a relative bright spot amid the more somber context of the global economy’s rocky recovery. As the chart shows, the region will contribute about 70 percent of global growth this year—a much greater share than in recent years, boosted by China’s Reopening. The …
With President Biden’s announcement that he will seek reelection in 2024, a new confrontation with former President Trump, who seems to be the Republican with the best chance of being his party’s candidate, is on the horizon. It is incredible that in a country of …
Ricardo Pascoe Pierce Tomorrow marks the day when the world working class stands up to the capital and demands its place at the bargaining table for the general welfare of society. Considering that this day is celebrated almost everywhere in the world, why is the …
Antonio Navalón At three different times and in three other places on the planet in the past week, they highlighted the meaning of this strange situation that demonstrated how worn out the fundamental democratic principles and the harassment many countries suffer in their consolidation as …
Overview The outlook is uncertain again amid financial sector turmoil, high inflation, ongoing effects of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, and three years of COVID The baseline forecast is for growth to fall from 3.4 percent in 2022 to 2.8 percent in 2023, before settling at …