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February 19, 2017
Weekly Economic News Roundup and the best country
February 19, 2017
Really Understanding the World

Seeing the world develop through bubble animation from Hans Rosling makes health and income statistics mesmerizingly enjoyable.

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January 19, 2017
Weekly economic news roundup and China's private schools
January 19, 2017
Why China Will Make a Better Ballpoint Pen

Until Chinese innovation produces better ballpoint pens, the tips for billions of exports will have to be imported from Germany, Switzerland and Japan.

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January 16, 2017
Weekly Economic News Roundup and mobile money
January 16, 2017
Where Phones Pump Money

Kenya's economic development has been fueled by a mobile banking system that makes it easy to save, send and spend money with a cell phone.

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January 3, 2017
weekly roundup and urban planning
January 3, 2017
Street Grid Economics

More than we realize, our economic behavior in a city is shaped by the urban planning that created the shape, the length and the width of the streets.

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September 13, 2015
September 13, 2015
Part 1: The Trap That China Wants to Avoid

Currently slowing down, China's economic growth might be challenged by the middle income trap that has caught Brazil but not Taiwan or Malaysia.

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August 2, 2015
Sanitation gap and human capital
August 2, 2015
The World’s Sanitation Gap

A production possibilities graph can display the land, labor and capital underutilization that inadequate sanitation creates and indicate a constrained GDP.

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February 20, 2015
everyday economics and the birth rate
February 20, 2015
Part 2: What To Do When More People Are Old

Facing an aging population and more entitlements, countries that are encouraging more births to expand the labor force might be creating a bigger problem.

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July 7, 2014
Indian development and tradeoffs from roads and cars
July 7, 2014
The Difference Between India's Stories and Statistics

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April 16, 2014
economic news roundup and water shortages
April 16, 2014
How To Cope With (Water) Stress

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