The Economist - 31 июля 2021

Год выпуска: июль 2021

Автор: The Economist Newspaper and The Economist Group

Жанр: Экономика/Политика

Издательство: «The Economist Newspaper Ltd»

Формат: PDF (журнал на английском языке)

Качество: OCR

Количество страниц: 72

Dashed hopes: Emerging markets’ growth problem

• Unrest and economic underperformance stalk the emerging world: leader, page 7, and briefing, page 14.
• People in middle-income countries were already fed up with their governments. The pandemic has made that worse, page 48.
• Inequality helps explain why some places have suffered more from covid-19 than others: Free exchange, page 62.

Why people reject jabs

• Poor health literacy, not just divisive politics, holds back vaccination, page 17.
• Our statistical model highlights who’s most and least likely to get the shot, page 18.

China’s techlash

• A crackdown on the online-education business marks a turning-point: leader, page 8, and analysis, page 56.

Robinhood and the merry mob

• The platform that brought retail investing to the masses goes public, page 57.

Proteinotopia

• Remarkable progress in understanding the folding of proteins will help open up almost limitless vistas: leader, page 9.
• In the first of six briefs on biology we look at the molecules on which life is based, page 63.