Who’s right about the best way to reduce child poverty? Reading through the recent intellectual proxy fight between NYT columnist Nicholas Kristof and Fox News panelist John...
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Midnight train to Beijing – lessons from China’s high-speed rail
“A railroad station? That was sort of a primitive airport, only you didn't have to take a cab 20 miles out of town to reach it.” Reading through a recent Economist article...
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More than a safari – real estate investments in Africa
“We don’t know what we don’t know,” as Donald Rumsfeld once said when asked whether intelligence gathered had been shared adequately across the US intelligence community. Applied...
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Dirty deeds, done cheap – is Germany failing at public works?
With its resurrection following the Second World War and the unification of East and West, Germany has had a remarkable journey over the past 75 years. In particular its stable...
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We don’t need no education? Germany’s economic foundation is at risk
Öslem Tureci and Uğur Şahin – the founders of BionTech, which, together with Pfizer, pioneered one of the first covid-19 vaccines – are remarkable individuals in a wider sense....
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Greed is good! Cracks in the EU agri market
On 20 January 2021 the Czech lower house of parliament passed a bipartisan bill that, if enacted, would potentially pose a significant threat to one of the EU’s core elements,...