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Demography is an incontrovertible force, driving the underpinnings of Italy's aging society to breaking point. The creeping danger of a numerical decline of the workforce has become a brutal reality bearing down alarmingly on labor productivity
Italians, conflicted – likable and engaging and torn between hopes of yesteryear and today’s reality – tread a narrow path between a make-believe tantrum, irreversible commitments in the name of uncertain policies and actual structural reform
Healthcare demand in China is an overwhelming challenge - stretched to the limit by the expectations of a newly empowered middle class and pressured by desperate, impoverished and indebted families
Already the largest drugs market after the US, with an aging population, more demanding patients and more combative families, China remains a tumultuous market place
Alibaba, the e-commerce giant, and Tencent, the videogame behemoth, are seeking ways to extend their strong presence in markets roiled by fickle consumer expectations and under competitive pressure. Profits will suffer...
An improbable feat but the tight integration of its social network with mass entertainment has a reach which will keep the company in the sights of regulators and central authorities
Within 12 months of Mr. Ghosn's arrest in Japan, the underpinnings of the Alliance between Renault and Nissan are giving way and the two companies are still searching for a game plan to side-step political interference by both countries
Uniformly negative (with exception of Brazil), car sales trends are worsening in key markets, foremost in China and in Europe, and dramatically in India. The bite of deeply transformative structural factors will compound industrial uncertainty
Correlated with tremendous GDP growth since 2000, China’s official foreign lending has transformed the Chinese government in the world’s largest official creditor, even though the loans to some of the poorest countries are 'hidden'
FinTech has opened a window of opportunities in a mostly dormant financial market and this report argues that the early stages of this financial revolution, fairly substantial in urban China, are only part of the story
The rise of Asia represents the beginnings of a shift in the balance of economic power in the world and some erosion in the political dominance of the West. Although massive, the poverty reduction could have been much greater but for the rising inequality
The islands in the Indian Ocean bearing the name are indeed 'scattered' around Madagascar, mainly in the Mozambique Channel. Formally under French sovereignty, their tiny size belies their growing strategic importance for the world's most powerful players
Mayotte, a French Département in the Comoros archipelago, is overpopulated, underemployed, and poorly educated - a potential target of unvarnished Chinese and Russian ambitions, and a basket case for a medium-sized ex-colonial power
The US tech firms have been putting their trust in a business model guaranteeing identical levels of service across the world but their global offering could be clashing with local expectations, as Amazon's venture in India might suggest
Commerce deserves careful scrutiny as the advance scouting party of a much larger enterprise, the vast infrastructure project staged and controlled by China's Belt and Road Initiative
Facts do not destroy beliefs; facts may disclaim their assertions strenuously without weakening their thrust…(Marcel Proust). With 'beliefs' fronting for national policy in the Brexit debate, the EU will need to choose its options carefully
As probably thousands of products are aligned on EU requirements and their representative associations have been very active in shaping EU policy, the prospect of free trade agreements outside the European Union is dire
As competition wears down uniqueness and profitability of Apple's flagship products, the company is betting its future on 'Services', a vast archipelago of digital extensions which turns out to be hard to pin down
Smartphone sales are Apple's core business and in a maturing market, the company's potential would be irreversably wounded by share loss on its key developed markets, critically in competitive Europe
