Tag: global flows

• ‘The Invisibles’: Unseen footage of Italy’s migrant labourers at peak of COVID-19

  July 5, 2020

  Those are the words of Aboubakar Soumahoro, an Ivorian living in Italy whose work as a union leader to fight for the rights of over 200,000 migrant labourers – mostly… more ›

• The Decline of the American World

  June 27, 2020

  Other countries are used to loathing America, admiring America, and fearing America (sometimes all at once). But pitying America? That one is new. “He hated America very deeply,” John le… more ›

• Exclusive: Obscure Indian cyber firm spied on politicians, investors worldwide

  June 10, 2020

  LONDON/WASHINGTON (Reuters) – A little-known Indian IT firm offered its hacking services to help clients spy on more than 10,000 email accounts over a period of seven years. https://www.reuters.com/article/us-india-cyber-mercenaries-exclusive-idUSKBN23G1GQ more ›

• A nation on pause: coronavirus in India

  May 24, 2020

  Nilanjana S Roy   It was the beginning, though we did not know what it meant then, the river of men and women eddying towards the Nizamuddin Railway Station in… more ›

• Is France breaking with its colonial past in Africa?

  May 24, 2020

  It is the end of an era in West Africa as France moves to scrap the currency used by its former colonies. Eight West African countries will soon be using… more ›

• Africa Is Not Waiting to Be Saved From the Coronavirus

  May 17, 2020

  As Covid-19 races its way across Africa, there are two stories happening at once. The first is of governments using their armies and militarized police to beat, threaten, and shoot… more ›

• Nigeria’s immediate future looks bleak without oil revenue—it doesn’t have to be that way

  May 17, 2020

  Globalization, automation, and inequality. That prediction, made by the World Bank in 2017, and based on decades of Nigeria’s dependence on oil, has proven astute. Amid a crippling coronavirus pandemic,… more ›

• ‘It’s bullshit’: Inside the weird, get-rich-quick world of dropshipping

  May 5, 2020

  Canggu is a place where people go to feel rich. The clicking of keyboards in the Balinese town’s co-working spaces is drowned out only by the roar of mopeds. Over… more ›

• COVID-19: 5 new human truths that experiences need to address

  May 5, 2020

  COVID-19 is the biggest global event—and challenge—of our lifetimes. As such, it is changing human attitudes and behaviors today and forcing organizations to respond. However, the need to respond won’t… more ›

• The 90% economy that lockdowns will leave behind

  May 3, 2020

  Editor’s note: The Economist is making some of its most important coverage of the covid-19 pandemic freely available to readers of The Economist Today, our daily newsletter. To receive it,… more ›