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Riding high in a workers’ world

A jobs rebound, shifting politics and technological change could bring a golden age for labour in rich countries

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A bright future for the world of work

Asia

Singapore’s prime-minister-in-waiting gives up the job

The city-state’s carefully planned leadership transition is in disarray

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Design bias is harmful, and in some cases may be lethal

The world is designed around white men. They share it with everyone else

Middle East & Africa

Kenyans are starting to drink their own coffee

Covid-19 has shown the value of a local market for local beans

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Bhutan vaccinated almost all its adults against covid-19 in a week

Only Israel and the Seychelles have inoculated a higher share of the population

Europe

Why Emmanuel Macron is abolishing France’s most elite college

From the archive: Bending to populist demand, the president sends ENA, his alma mater, to the guillotine

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Ernest Hemingway: the man, the myth, the legend

A new documentary by Ken Burns and Lynn Novick explores the writer’s own image-making

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Riding high: A special report on the future of work

April 10th 2021
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Finance & economics

House prices in the rich world are booming

Unusually, suburbs not cities are feeling the heat

China

China is betting that the West is in irreversible decline

The country’s leaders see their moment, and are seizing it

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How Europe has mishandled the pandemic

What happened and what does it mean for the union?

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Our house-price forecast expects the global rally to lose steam

It predicts France and Germany to be the best-performing markets during the next three years

Vaccinating the world

Science & technology

With millions vaccinated, rare side-effects of jabs are emerging

The challenge is to sort them from the medical emergencies that happen every day

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Why the EU’s covid-19 vaccination programme went wrong

The commission should have done much better

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Tracking covid-19 across the world

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International

Almost one billion doses of covid-19 vaccines have been produced

The world is working out how to share them

United States

Americans are rushing to get vaccinated as covid-19 cases spread

The supply of vaccine soon won’t be a constraint

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Special report: The future of work

A bright future for the world of work

Workers the world over have had a torrid year. But the future is bright, argues Callum Williams

Labour markets are working, but also changing

Labour markets have coped with covid-19 better than expected. But they have changed

The biggest losers from covid-19

Covid-19 is a disease of the poor and the powerless

The rise of working from home

The shift to a hybrid world of work will have a big impact on managers

Robots threaten jobs less than fearmongers claim

Recessions and pandemics accelerate automation. Yet warnings of a jobless future are overblown

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