The Economist - The World in 2021 - USA (2020-11-24)
Uganda’s president, Yoweri Museveni, has held power since 1986 and the advantages of incumbency should see him to a 6th term in ...
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Sales of cars in 2020 were expected to shake off the sluggishness of recent years; instead, the pandemic brought disaster. Carma ...
in July; Nissan will leave Barcelona in December 2021. Indonesia has also lost a Nissan plant but will gain one from Hyundai, ke ...
TO WATCH: War, virtually. Covid-19 promises to spur defence strategists’ use of virtual reality for war-gaming. “Synthetic envir ...
TO WATCH: Blocked pipe. Gazprom’s Nord Stream 2 pipeline linking Russia to Germany via the Baltic could finally start pumping ga ...
TO WATCH: Microsoft ups its game. Gaming wars are increasingly playing out on cloud platforms, not consoles. Microsoft wants to ...
Finance firms may not have caused the covid-driven economic crisis but will nonetheless bear the brunt of it in 2021. Debt is al ...
charge. Emerging-market premiums will shoot up by 7% in 2021, predicts Swiss Re, a reinsurance company. TO WATCH: CIPS v SWIFT. ...
TO WATCH: Vertical ascent. High-tech “vertical farming” could help overcome covid- era food woes. Cultivation occurs indoors in ...
TO WATCH: Digital dilemma. Delayed by covid-19, the EU’s new Medical Device Directive comes into full force in May as regulators ...
Information technology ...
The pandemic is giving a shot in the arm to swathes of IT. Social distancing will boost technologies including robotics, the int ...
After declining by around 7% in 2020, ad revenues will rise by 6% to $573bn, according to Magna Research. Rescheduled sports eve ...
Big spending on infrastructure in China, especially, ought to support suppliers of industrial metals such as copper. Indeed, the ...
Having declined by nearly 5% in 2020, global retail sales will expand by 3% in 2021. Asia will lead the charge, with sales in Vi ...
will morph into warehouses, losing out to big-box retailers that collect lots of brands beneath one roof. Prepare for more bankr ...
Booming online shopping and remote working will fuel record demand for mobile and internet services. But the pandemic’s economic ...
Few industries were walloped harder by the pandemic than travel and tourism. More tourists will venture forth in 2021, but they ...
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