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Sahel
West must engage with dictatorships in Sahel, says Blair
...However, the biggest development challenge was a large cohort of disaffected youth, with two-thirds of the population below the age of 25....
April 18, 2024
News in-depthTechnology sector
‘Strings attached’: Saudi Arabia steps up demands in tech deals with China
...“There is a hidden motivation for the increased investment relationship between China and Saudi Arabia,” said Chris Vassallo, a researcher at the Asia Society Policy Institute’s Center for China Analysis...
February 19, 2024
FT Live
Strategies for Trading Interest Rate Volatility
Understanding the rate environment and capitalising on fluctuations
Thursday, 20 June71 Basinghall Avenue, London EC2V, UK
Technology sector
China blocks use of Intel and AMD chips in government computers
...China’s finance ministry, the MIIT and China IT Security Evaluation Center did not respond to requests for comment....
March 24, 2024
Special ReportThriving Cities
Youth development initiative inspires new generation of Nigerians
...Abbaly then invited him to become a founding member of his Successor Generation Community, a youth development programme in Ikorodu, roughly 25 miles from Lagos, Nigeria’s most populous city....
January 17, 2024
Special ReportThriving Cities
Charities give youths from conflict zones the chance of an education
...This was the reason that youth activist Fouad Sayed Issa gave for founding the refugee-led Violet Organization for Relief and Development in the north-west of Syria in 2011, when he was just 16....
March 13, 2024
News in-depthForeign aid
Development funds dash for donor cash at World Bank and IMF meetings
...“There is a record amount of need and a record number of funds coming forward, meanwhile, the international community’s focus is elsewhere,” said Clemence Landers, senior policy fellow at the Center for...
April 15, 2024
FT Live
Financial Times @COP
FT Live events coinciding with COP
Monday, 11 NovemberBaku, Azerbaijan
Climate change
Climate change failings violate citizens’ rights, European court rules
...The Strasbourg courtroom was at capacity for the ruling, with the youth climate campaigner Greta Thunberg also present....
April 9, 2024
Chinese society
China’s ageing tech workers hit by ‘curse of 35’
...There is a perception that older workers don’t keep up with the latest technological developments, that they don’t have energy to keep up the hard work and that they’re too expensive,” said Beijing-based...
April 23, 2024
Antibiotic resistance
‘Potent’ antibiotic drug boosts fight against superbugs
...“But the elegant synthetic design of cresomycin, based on an intuitive rationale, provides an exciting scaffold for further development.”...
February 15, 2024
Artificial intelligence
Speed of AI development stretches risk assessments to breaking point
...said Rishi Bommasani, who leads a team at the Stanford Center for Research on Foundation Models....
April 10, 2024
US-China relations
China warns Blinken US must choose between ‘co-operation or confrontation’
...It highlighted some positive developments in the relationship, such as China’s support for efforts to crackdown on fentanyl exports to the US....
April 25, 2024
ReviewGaming
Open Roads — absorbing game of family secrets
...When she visits the summer house of her youth, she remarks: “It’s more weathered than I remember. But I guess I am, too.”...
April 3, 2024
Special ReportThriving Cities
Development charities shift focus to urban areas
...Diego Angel-Urdinola, senior economist for skills and workforce development at the World Bank, says: “Investment in human capital among youth and young adults yields high and positive life-long returns....
November 29, 2023
International Development Association (IDA)
World Bank lender to poorest nations seeks record funding haul
...“Some of its biggest traditional donors have stuff going on that it makes it harder for them to cough up larger amounts [for IDA],” said Charles Kenny, senior fellow at the Center for Global Development...
March 17, 2024
Markets InsightDina Ting
Why China’s market slump is far from a crisis
...Notable technological and infrastructure developments were also achieved last year....
April 24, 2024
FT Live
TNW Conference 2024 - The Next Web
Europe’s leading tech event for corporates, startups, investors and governments
Thursday, 20 JuneAmsterdam, Netherlands
Special ReportHealth and Climate Change
Lyme disease bites as ticks gain ground in US
...One is the development of an experimental vaccine at the University of Pennsylvania, which draws on the mRNA approach used for certain Covid-19 vaccines....
April 29, 2024
Ask Adeela
Can I erase my wrinkles?
...Elsewhere, Estée Lauder (for which I consult) and the Stanford Center on Longevity have been investigating the role and importance of sirtuins in the skin; findings showed they are vital for DNA repair,...
February 16, 2024
Climate change
Youth activists win landmark US climate legal victory in Montana case
...“This decision is limited to the state constitution in Montana, and has no precedential value outside the state,” said Michael Burger, executive director of the Sabin Center for Climate Change Law....
August 14, 2023
Climate change
Portuguese Gen Z and Swiss boomers await pivotal court rulings on climate change
...Sébastien Duyck, a lawyer and campaign manager at the Center for International Environmental Law, said that categorising climate harms as inhuman treatment went to “the essence of human dignity, highlighting...
April 8, 2024
North Korea
North Korea’s Kim seeks to build on Russia ties to resuscitate economy
...The regional development drive is “perfectly compatible” with Kim’s desire to build up the country’s capabilities for a future conflict, said Rachel Minyoung Lee, a senior fellow at the Stimson Center think-tank...
April 28, 2024
News in-depthTaiwan
China, war and tech: how Taiwan’s disillusioned youth feel about a pivotal election
...“I really wanted to vote for Ko Wen-je,” he said, pointing to the TPP’s promise to tackle high property prices, a particular source of discontent for Taiwanese youth....
December 24, 2023
News in-depthChinese politics & policy
China asserts ‘deep friendship’ with North Korea as Russian influence grows
...Victor Gao, a former Chinese diplomat and now vice-president of the Center for China and Globalization, a Beijing think-tank, said Russia and North Korea were “both sovereign countries”....
April 12, 2024
News updates from August 14: Argentina devalues peso by 18% after shock primary poll, UBS pays $1.4bn to settle US mortgage case
Montana judge rules youth have right to a ‘clean’ environment
...A judge in Montana ruled in favour of youth climate activists on Monday in a landmark case that established young people had a right to a “clean and healthful environment.”...
August 14, 2023
News in-depthNorth Korea
Kim’s rejection of Korean reunification opens perilous new era
...the Stimson Center think-tank in Washington....
January 28, 2024
Moral Money
The societal side effects of weight-loss drugs Premium content
...This could have a major impact in the US, where more than 40 per cent of the population is obese, according to the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention....
March 13, 2024

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