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YAN ISLAM | The much-noted flagship publication of the World Bank Doing Business (DB) was publicly unveiled recently.
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PETER LAYTON | The Foreign Affairs Committee of the DPRK Supreme People’s Assembly has been busy sending open letters to…
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MICHAEL HEAZLE AND JOHN KANE | Sam Roggeveen argues that the real challenge to globalisation and openness and immigration…
YAN ISLAM | India’s recent growth slowdown has elicited a lively national discussion – see here, for example. It…
