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It’s time to save the world, Mr Trump

  The planet’s wealthiest and most powerful countries face a slow-moving but potentially devastating political and economic crisis. It now falls to Donald Trump to find a way to combat it. Over the past few years, voters in much of the developed world have rebelled against the establishment. In the U.S., millions of voters supported an avowed socialist in the ...

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Waste management needs to be innovative

  Rapid urbanization and industrialization coupled with the galloping population is posing a massive waste problem. The trash generated in our cities is becoming increasingly difficult to manage. A recent study by Frost and Sullivan indicates that the volume of total garbage in the GCC will go up from 94 million MT in 2015 to 120 million annually by 2020. ...

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UK shouldn’t weaponize its overseas aid budget

  As the UK begins the long, difficult process of building a post-Brexit trade architecture with the rest of the world, the government may be tempted to mobilize the country’s overseas aid budget in support of those efforts. While there’s nothing wrong with hoping that assisting poorer countries will make them economically strong enough to engage in increased trade, the ...

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