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Dive into who will be the next electric vehicle superpower, find out where the world’s most wanted metals and minerals might be as well as why the success of the Ivory Coast is Africa’s best-kept secret. All this and much more.
Where will be the next electric-vehicle superpower?
Three Asian countries make their pitch.
The success of Ivory Coast is Africa’s best-kept secret
How has it managed to outshine its peers?
The luxury industry is poised for a deal wave
A proposed tie-up between Prada and Versace is just the start.
The best places to be a working woman in 2025
Our glass-ceiling index measures the role and influence of women in the workforce.
Past editions
Why paying women to have more babies won’t work
Economies must adapt to baby busts instead.
Can women-only factories help more Indian women into work?
Ola, an electric-scooter manufacturer, is trying to find out.
Why you should never retire
Pleasure cruises, golf and tracing the family tree are not that fulfilling
Demand for “green” metals will redraw the global mining map
The energy transition will mint new fortunes in surprising places
How motherhood hurts careers
A new study measures its impact on women’s employment worldwide
Slowing human ageing is now the subject of serious research
And some of it is making progress, writes Geoffrey Carr
ChatGPT mania may be cooling, but a serious new industry is taking shape
Three forces will shape the business of generative AI
AI holds tantalising promise for the emerging world
It could help boost human capital, and ultimately growth
Retirement has become much longer across the rich world
On average, men can expect to spend 20 years kicking back.
The cucumber Saudis: how the Dutch got too good at farming
A small, fertiliser-rich country sniffs the limits of its old model.
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