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Esther Duflo and Abhijit Banerjee: ‘Ours is a social science’
This is part of a series, ‘Economists Exchange’, featuring conversations between top FT commentators and leading economists about coronavirus economic…
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Western powers reignite Beijing anger after G7 and Nato warnings
For more than six weeks, Taiwanese military officers wondered where the Chinese fighter jets had gone. During May, only four…
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Saudis agree oil deal with Pakistan to counter Iran influence
Saudi Arabia has agreed to restart oil aid to Pakistan worth at least $1.5bn annually in July, according to officials in Islamabad, as…
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Ex-head of Canada’s largest pension fund joins Singapore VC firm
The former head of the Canada Pension Plan Investment Board is joining a Singapore-based venture capital group, in his first…
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Raisi election will not derail Iran nuclear talks, say western powers
Western powers vowed over the weekend to forge ahead with efforts aimed at reviving the Iran nuclear deal as capitals…
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Edward Mortimer, academic, journalist and UN official, 1943-2021
Edward Mortimer, who has died aged 77, was chief foreign affairs commentator of the Financial Times from 1987-1998, chief speech…
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Hardliners gain a lock over Iranian politics
Ebrahim Raisi, a hardline Islamist judge and a protégé of Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, Iran’s supreme leader, has comfortably won presidential…
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Public health experts issue warning over future England lockdowns
England may have to endure future lockdowns later this year, public health experts warned on Sunday, amid growing fears that…
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Former speaker John Bercow joins Labour with blast at Johnson
John Bercow, the former speaker of the House of Commons and former Conservative MP has joined the Labour party, arguing…
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How Juneteenth became a consolation prize
This weekend Americans celebrated Juneteenth for the first time as a national holiday, but for many black Americans the festivities…
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China steps up crackdown on bitcoin mining industry
China’s largest bitcoin producing provinces have intensified a crackdown on cryptocurrency mining in the latest sign of how global authorities…
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Latin America isn’t booming, but that could change
The writer, Morgan Stanley Investment Management’s chief global strategist, is author of ‘The Ten Rules of Successful Nations’ For all…
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How will the Bank of England react to the return of inflation?
How will the Bank of England react to the return of inflation? UK inflation has climbed above the Bank of…
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Why Suga is so determined to go ahead with the Tokyo Olympics
At the lowest point in May, more than 80 per cent of the Japanese public wanted the upcoming Olympics cancelled…
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England and Scotland play out draw amid din and downpour of Wembley
England 0 — Scotland 0 The latest edition of the oldest fixture in international football will not live long in…
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Poland officials targeted in Russian cyber attack, says Kaczynski
Senior Polish officials were targeted in a cyber attack that originated in Russia, Poland’s de facto leader Jaroslaw Kaczynski said…
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HSBC takes $3bn hit to exit French retail business
HSBC is taking a $3bn hit to exit its French retail banking network, selling the business to US private equity…
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Major hurdles face government effort to privatise Channel 4
Created by Margaret Thatcher to smash the television duopoly in 1980s Britain, Channel 4 has survived countless proposals for privatisation,…
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EU fails in legal action against AstraZeneca over vaccine delay
The European Commission has lost a legal bid to force AstraZeneca to deliver millions more doses of its Covid-19 vaccines…
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The strategic unexcitingness of Joe Biden
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Vladislav Surkov: ‘An overdose of freedom is lethal to a state’
“There are two options,” says Vladislav Surkov as we settle into our seats. “The first is Anglo-Saxon. I give you…
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How China is targeting Big Tech
At the start of the year, Alibaba’s internal bulletin board buzzed with questions from staff as China’s antitrust officials began…
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Iranians lose faith in chance of change through the ballot box
Iranians vote in a presidential election on Friday that is forecast to cement regime hardliners’ control over the Islamic republic,…
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A clear case for glass
Over the past 50 years, it has been ceramics that have made the arduous climb from lowly “craft” status into…
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Fever pitch: football versus the culture wars
Going to a football match in the middle of a pandemic feels like undergoing an endurance test for a reality…
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South Korea vaccination surge adds impetus to Asia push
South Korea is on track to inoculate three-quarters of its 52m people against Covid-19 over the next three months as…
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Investors rush to stash cash with Fed after interest rate tweak
Investors stashed a record amount of cash in an overnight facility at the Federal Reserve on Thursday, after the central…
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Joe Biden’s stalling domestic agenda
US president Joe Biden has been in his element over the past week. A tour of Europe, spanning the G7,…
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Iran’s reformist candidate vows to tackle nuclear deal ‘at first chance’
The sole reformist candidate in Iran’s presidential election has vowed to try to resolve the stand-off with world powers over…
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Auld Enemy clash pulls thousands of Scotland fans to London
Thousands of Scotland football supporters descended on London ahead of Friday’s European Championship match against England, despite calls from the…
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US Supreme Court throws out challenge to Obamacare
The US Supreme Court has dismissed the latest challenge to the Affordable Care Act, preserving Barack Obama’s flagship healthcare reforms…
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Sweden’s government on brink ahead of no-confidence vote
Sweden’s government is teetering on the brink of collapse after a majority of MPs in parliament on Thursday said they…
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Davos is dead, and the coronavirus killed it
Felix Marquardt, a former global schmoozer and current author of The New Nomads, explains why attempting to solve the world’s…
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The links with Tai that Brussels hopes will bind
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Toshiba’s biggest shareholder labels board ‘ineffective’
Toshiba’s biggest shareholder has declared the Japanese conglomerate’s board “ineffective” and accused the company of failing to respond adequately to…
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Brazil’s Covid inquiry puts Bolsonaro on the back foot
For the third time in a little over a month, Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro this weekend rallied thousands of his…
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London cements position as hub for telecoms patent disputes
When Huawei lost a legal challenge at the UK’s highest court last year, over the licensing of patented technology, lawyers…
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Fraud chief warns of ‘big risk’ in policing €800bn EU recovery funds
The EU faces a “big risk” of abuses in its €800bn post-pandemic recovery fund because some countries refuse to sign…
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US investors hunt for yield in junk-rated municipal debt
Investors are pouring into the $4tn US municipal bond market, pushing yields on debt issued by state and local governments…
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Will we ever win the war on bank fraud?
“Some of the best entrepreneurs out there are scammers.” So says Mark Steward, the UK financial watchdog’s director of enforcement,…
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South Korea’s SK accused of greenwashing after LNG U-turn
One of South Korea’s biggest conglomerates is facing a backlash from activist groups after finalising a large Australian liquefied natural…
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Johnson suffers backbench rebellion over delay to ending lockdown
Boris Johnson on Wednesday suffered a large backbench rebellion as Conservative MPs voiced their opposition to the government’s decision to…
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Airbus and Boeing deal is a welcome EU-US detente on trade
A world where the United States and the European Union had the luxury of being at loggerheads over a 17-year-old…
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Coronavirus latest: EU to recommend relaxing travel restrictions for US tourists
Monique Roffey in London with a poster of her novel ‘The Mermaid of Black Conch’, which is published in paperback…
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Booming Brixton: reggae music, Michelin stars and million-pound homes
As Lee Jasper walks around the streets of Brixton, south London, he shakes his head. On Coldharbour Lane, once lined…
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The greatest threat to Tomorrow Johnson is Today Johnson
The Conservatives, like many major parties, are a coalition. There are splits between authoritarians and libertarians, interventionists and Thatcherites, nativists…
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Lex Letter from New York: bank chiefs should not shame staff back to offices
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Youth vs the gerontocrats: a potent political force tests Africa’s ageing rulers
Until last November, Luzige Masudi, a skinny young man with the physique of a ballet dancer, made his money as…
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Marine Le Pen looks for an electoral boost on the French Riviera
In the south of France, Marine Le Pen is hoping that her far right party is about to break a…
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Rising prices for clothing and fuel push UK inflation up to 2.1%
UK inflation jumped again last month, overshooting both economists’ expectations and the Bank of England target, as the gradual reopening…
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