In 1937, when Benito Mussolini, then Italy’s fascist leader, opened Cinecittà, a sprawling film complex in Rome, his government adopted a variant of a slogan first ascribed to Lenin ...

The Economist’s recent article, “Africa Needs a Capitalist Revolution,” reflects their trend of oversimplified and paternalistic commentary on Africa. In May 2000, the same publication ...

The Managing Director of the International Monetary Fund (IMF), Ms. Kristalina Georgieva, has showered praise on Ghana’s immediate past Finance Minister, Dr. Mohammed Amin Adam. She commended ...

On January 10, 2025, Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev signed a decree dismissing Samir Sharifov from his position as Minister of Finance. After 19 years of serving as Minister of Finance, Sharifov ...

The factory floor of Schneider Electric’s plant in Conselve, Italy, hums with urgency. Workers at the power-equipment company’s facility, which is in the midst of a major expansion, are busily ...

As they reach older age, they are not giving up their old habits. Chart: The Economist Among those for whom time’s winged chariot is hurrying a little nearer, drug and alcohol use—and abuse—have ...

The St. Louis Federal Reserve crunched the numbers on 21 years of economist forecasts collected by the Blue Chip Survey of Professional Forecasters. The regional Fed tracked the widely followed ...

Radical Islamists have called for his death, and he lives under police protection. The Economist met him at an unmarked third-party office. Nothing has since been quite the same for Charlie Hebdo.

To read more of The Economist’s data journalism visit our Graphic detail page. A COUNTRY BATTLING recession, high energy costs and political uncertainty may be an unlikely home for Europe’s ...

John Prideaux hosts with Charlotte Howard and Adam O’Neal. They’re joined by The Economist correspondents Aryn Braun, Steve Mazie and Simon Rabinovitch.

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