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Are stock buybacks a corporate scam?

When corporations buy back shares is it for the good of the economy, or themselves?

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Helping Africa feed itself

Supporting Africa's homegrown food-growing capacity

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The singing president who disappeared

Turkmenistan's president mysteriously vanishes, while his country faces economic crisis

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Ecommerce in Africa - still finding its way

Will online retailers overcome a lack of infrastructure and trust to conquer Africa?

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The challenges facing Syrian refugees in Turkey

Are Syrians now paying the price of Turkey's economic slowdown?

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Why not buy Greenland?

What Trump's shock proposal tells us about sovereignty and Arctic geopolitics

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How can women take charge of their finances?

Is the wealth management industry still too geared towards male clients?

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Dying for insulin in the USA

Why do American diabetics have to pay so much for this life-saving drug?

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Can we trust Rwanda's data?

Dodgy statistics and aid money in Africa

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Hollywood vs Netflix

How are movie producers making money in the age of online streaming?

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Air pollution gets personal

Can a greater understanding of how poor air quality harms us help us tackle this problem?

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The hipster company that wants to save the world

Is WeWork an exciting new tech firm, or just an over-priced office rental business?

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Brand Britain and Brexit

What the rest of the world makes of the UK's Brexit crisis

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Can technology read minds?

The business of brain data

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The world is running out of sand

A global construction boom is fuelling an illegal trade in sand used to make concrete

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Tackling the male fertility crisis

Tech start-ups are finally giving attention to the steady global decline in sperm counts

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Going after Google

US state authorities fear the search giant has too much power over what we buy

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The cannabidiol craze

The cannabis extract is finding its way into soaps and cosmetics, but is it just a fad?

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The cost of sending money home

Why it's time to start paying attention to the global remittances industry

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Africa's mobile credit revolution

Will the roll out of online lending stimulate economic boom or just a credit binge?

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Whom should the corporation serve?

Should shareholders come first? Or employees, customers, and society in general?

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Trading tinned fish and powdered milk

How economies spring up in extreme places from refugee camps to prisons

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Robot race cars and AI

What robots driving cars can tell us about artificial intelligence.

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The future of Facebook

What next for the social media giant?

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Climate Action: Greta Thunberg's mission

The teen activist on how she aims to get governments to take action on climate change

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Climate Action: Uninhabitable Earth

Just how bad will it get if the world fails to get to grips with climate change?

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Climate Action: The moral imperative

What is our ethical duty to eliminate carbon emissions?

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Climate Action: Should we plant more trees?

Is reforestation the best way to tackle climate change?

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WeWork and the cult of the CEO

How WeWork's Adam Neumann lost his job

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Brexit and the currency speculators

Some traders are betting on the UK crashing out of the EU without a divorce agreement

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