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With an estimated GDP of $44.128 trillion by 2050, India is projected to be the world’s second largest economy after China, but how will the pandemic affect the world’s largest democracy?

Climate crises, plagues, an unwillingness to trade with foreigners and the corruption of democracy: a snapshot of the 21st century or a sign history is repeating itself?

“In peace times it is just Switzerland but in war time it is the only country that everybody has confidence in” – Gertrude Stein. Switzerland's brand is precision, quality, reliability and stability. Everything, except for the chocolate, is built to last.

Mount Kenya visible Nairobi and some of the most polluted waterways are running clear. The Great Lockdown’s silver lining has been a drop in air pollution and increase in water quality. Is choosing between the economy and our collective health right?

The political left is always tempted to think that it is about to win the war. After the global banking crisis in 2008 fevered left-wing analysts concluded that a crisis in capitalism would mean a leftwards shift in politics. Could they now be right?