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Scarcely surviving: Zimbabwe

Scarcely surviving: Zimbabwe

FromThe Intelligence from The Economist


Scarcely surviving: Zimbabwe

FromThe Intelligence from The Economist

ratings:
Length:
22 minutes
Released:
Aug 19, 2019
Format:
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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Get a daily burst of global illumination from The Economist’s worldwide network of correspondents as they dig past the headlines to get to the stories beneath—and to stories that aren’t making headlines, but should be.