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Scarcely surviving: Zimbabwe
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Length:
22 minutes
Released:
Aug 19, 2019
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Podcast episode
Description
Electricity, food, water: everything is in short supply in the country, including faith in the government’s ability to recover from Robert Mugabe’s kleptocracy. China produced a record 8.3m university graduates this year; we take a look at the changing labour market they’re entering. And, experiments in the Netherlands to house the young with the old are going remarkably well, in part because both parties benefit. For information regarding your data privacy, visit acast.com/privacy
Released:
Aug 19, 2019
Format:
Podcast episode
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