“The second wave of Covid-19 negatively impacted economic activity at the beginning of the year,” the agency’s analysts said. Fitch expects economic activity to rise in the country from the second half of 2021 due to a partial recovery of investments and the vaccination of citizens. At the same time, …
Read More »UN raises global economic growth outlook on increased US consumer spending
UNCTAD expects the global economy to grow by 4.7% in 2021 compared to the previously forecast 4.3%. “The global recovery that began in the third quarter of 2020 is expected to continue through 2021, albeit with a good deal of unevenness and unpredictability, reflecting epidemiological, policy and coordination uncertainties,” the …
Read More »Academic intolerance on the rise, study finds, highlighting growth of wokeness in younger scholars
Purporting to be the first paper of its kind to “investigate authoritarianism and political discrimination in academia,” the study, conducted by the Center for the Study of Partisanship and Ideology’s Eric Kaufmann, seemed to support conservatives’ longstanding complaints that they and their political viewpoints face disproportionate levels of ideologically-motivated censorship. …
Read More »Indian economy finally returns to growth, beating Covid-driven recession
India’s real gross domestic product (GDP) rose 0.4 percent in the third quarter of its fiscal year, returning the economy to “the pre-pandemic times of positive growth rates,” the Ministry of Finance said as the new data emerged. However, the growth rate was slightly smaller than analysts had expected, with …
Read More »Meteoric growth: Bitcoin keeps beating its own best, shooting past $57,000
On Friday, the cryptocurrency rose to a record $56,600, taking its weekly gain to 18 percent. So far this year, it has surged more than 92 percent, with Friday’s rise pushing its market valuation to $1 trillion. The enormous inflows of the past week have seen the market capitalization of …
Read More »China becomes only major economy to record growth during pandemic
In a dramatic turnaround since the deadly virus rattled the world’s second-largest economy at the start of 2020, China’s gross domestic product (GDP) jumped 6.5 percent in the final quarter compared to a year earlier, according to official data released by the National Bureau of Statistics on Monday. The result …
Read More »Thou shall not forgive! Is ‘cancel culture’ stunting our growth as a species?
Another week, another batch of ‘cancel culture’ stories. As sure as the world keeps turning, someone somewhere will be getting a kicking on social media for something they said or did, while people fight about the merits of said kicking, and the sun sets and rises again. If you haven’t …
Read More »Live broadcasting of misogyny, violence & even death: The growth of ‘trash-streaming’, a disturbing Russian internet sub-culture
In essence, trash streamers make money by taking payments for their on-screen actions. Viewers, sometimes in their thousands, send donations with commands for things the streamer should do. Often, these include humiliating other on-screen guests, or offering cash to young girls for performing sexualized actions on camera. ‘Trash-streaming’ has become …
Read More »Brookings, US: population Growth in the United States provide minorities
New estimates show that almost four out of 10 Americans identificeret yourself with a race or ethnic group non-white. In the Bureau suggest that the decade from 2010 to 2020 will be the first in the history of the country in which the number of the white population will decrease. …
Read More »How to change the life of Russians from June 1: growth rates and new payments: What to expect the Russians
The Russians have been waiting for the summer. But for many it, unfortunately, will not begin with a trip to the sea. Regions gradually begin to emerge from isolation and return to his former life. However, cases in Russia is a lot, and to the plateau we are still far. …
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