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...Still, the study by Subramanian et al should remind us why we care about globalisation....
...Waste of paper The City of London’s push to modernise is being held back by its archaic shareholding system and the vested interests that keep it in place, the FT’s Helen Thomas writes....
...Woman, Life, Freedom by Marjane Satrapi et al (Seven Stories Press) The much-feted author of the graphic novel Persepolis leads a collection of vivid, “visually stunning” accounts of the current unrest gripping...
...They include liberating areas from al-Shaabab control, securing debt relief, and finalising the process for the first Somali constitution since the fall of Barre....
...the kind that we saw in the seats that the Tories took off Labour, where young families moving, priced out of the cities, moving to smaller cities, smaller towns, commuter belt places....
...really do want to be part of Russia, et cetera....
...municipalities can play in keeping people employed....
...Andrew Garthwaite et al at Credit Suisse has had a fiddle about with the model portfolio, resulting in insurers getting a push....
...And, as lockdown measures are softened, the return of the likes of Gregg's, Starbucks et al to the UK FtG market will increase competition....
...Here’s a chart from a 2019 paper by Michael Rosenfeld et al. to demonstrate: Note the spike in “met in bar or restaurant” alongside the spike “met online”....
...Now it’s much more al desko.”...
...In China, there is even a productivity boost, with Poncet et al. (2014) finding that minimum wage growth increases the productivity of surviving firms and allows more productive firms to replace the least...
...One friend, talking about McBride et al blaming him for election-that-never-was....
...If the concerns raised by the IMF, the Pope, et al are to be addressed, we need concrete action to redistribute wealth from top to bottom and ensure the poorest share in the proceeds of economic growth....
...Greene herself steers clear of criticising Amazon but she angrily sums up the challenge from Whistl et al like this: “This is not the kind of competition that drives efficiency....
...It could and might be an employee of the municipality but I’m not sure of that (no proof). Private things have been destroyed and it happens too often.”...
...Azevedo et al called it something different — “in the nature of a bribe”....
...The government of Oakland, California, suspects so. They are taking on Goldman Sachs, hoping to wriggle out of derivatives deals that are costing the city dearly....
...Masterpieces of Chinese Painting: 700-1900, edited by Zhang Hongxing, V&A Publishing, RRP£40/$60 The world’s oldest painting tradition explored in the glorious catalogue to the V&A’s current, once-in-a-lifetime...
...One segment of the market (Open U, U of Phoenix, et al) specialise in delivering online courses for large audiences....
...Shi Cheng: Short Stories from Urban China, edited by Liu Deng, Carol Yinghua Lu and Ra Page, translated by Eric Abrahamsen, Nicky Harman, Julia Lovell, et al, Comma Press, RRP£9.99, 224 pages An anthology...
...Hynes et al think the softness will continue for a few months: We remain unconvinced that this rally will resume any time soon....
...“The people want the fall of the regime,” they chanted....
...Gibbs talks of the ancient staging posts of the Silk Route, “the great cities like Palmyra and Nishapur, that died and collapsed back into the sand....
...Three hours of trying to sort this out provided even more comedic insanity than I even revealed on the blog post....
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