The Economist – 2021-07-31 – July 31st, 2021 Free Audiobook

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July 31st, 2021

Dashed hopes: Emerging markets’ growth problem

Leaders
The global economy
Dashed hopes
Unrest and economic underperformance stalk the emerging world. The key to better times remains openness

China’s tech-bashing
Get poor quickly
China’s crackdown on the online-education business marks a turning-point

Tunisia
Relighting a beacon of democracy
The way out of Tunisia’s crisis

Biological origami
Proteinotopia
Remarkable progress in understanding the folding of proteins will help open up almost limitless vistas

The Philippines
How not to deal with China
Rodrigo Duterte’s China policy has shown the folly of appeasement