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Guy Hands on deal making and private equity

A frank account of a career in buying and selling businesses

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Is inflation making a comeback?

As some economists predict a return of high inflation, should we be worried?

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Nigeria's eNaira: Africa's first digital currency

What is the eNaira and how are Nigerians reacting to its launch last month?

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Business Weekly

Good COP or Bad COP?

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Can sewage spewing into UK waters be stopped?

Sewage entered British waters for over 3 million hours in 2020

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EU's green new deal and Africa

Will Africa’s economic development be held back by the world’s net-zero climate targets?

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Corruption in Afghanistan

Ex-finance minister says country brought down by rampant corruption at a very high level

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Hong Kong, business and the national security law

Are Hong Kong's days as a major financial centre now numbered?

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Diversity at the top

Why is the black community still so poorly represented in leadership positions?

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Business Weekly

The splitting of General Electric: is this the end of the era of global conglomerates?

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What did the climate talks achieve?

What was really at stake at the COP26 negotiations in Glasgow?

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Stalkerware: Tech-enabled domestic abuse skyrocketing

What if your partner was monitoring your every move through your smartphone?

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Period pants, poverty and the environment

Can this multi-million dollar industry help the climate and fight period poverty?

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Hunger crisis in Afghanistan

Is it time to stop the freeze of the country's financial assets and donor aid?

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Why toilets matter

Hundreds of millions of people still have no access to a safe, clean, hygienic toilet

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Business Weekly

Europe braces for another Covid wave

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Texas abortion laws

What impact could America's most restrictive abortion law have on business in the state?

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How to live to 150

How medical and technological advances could extend our life spans

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Baristas of the world unite!

Starbucks workers could be unionising, amid a resurgence of organised labour in America

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Why is Turkey's currency collapsing?

The Turkish Lira is in free fall, as President Erdogan pushes controversial policies

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The coming cleantech mining rush

Can the minerals needed to decarbonise the global economy be dug up fast enough?

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Business Weekly

Alarm in Turkey as the lira slumps and prices rise

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The plight of girls under the Taliban

How hard is life in Afghanistan for the female half of the population?

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The kleptocrats club

Authoritarians are keeping each other afloat, with help from the West's financial system

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Wind of change in Germany

Can the new government's renewable energy plan overcome German nimbyism and Russian gas?

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The collapse of Enron: Did we learn the lessons?

Two decades have passed since the scandal, but could another Enron happen today?

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The Omicron variant and vaccine inequality

Could a more equitable global vaccine rollout have stopped the new variant?

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Business Weekly

Zara founder's family keeps control of fashion giant

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Why private adoption is big business in the US

Is it time to reform private infant adoption in America?

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Super-fast grocery delivery apps are booming

Are apps delivering from the shop to your front door in minutes just a pandemic-era fad?

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