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Hello and welcome to the intelligence from The Economist.

I'm your host, Rosie Bloor.

Every weekday, we provide a fresh perspective on the event shaping your world.

For decades, China's largest cities have attracted people from all over the country.

As part of our World Ahead series, we look at why that might now be changing.

And Poland's milk bars are self-service canteens that have fed people cheaply for over a century.

But as rising costs and a cut in subsidies threaten their future,

our correspondent visits one for a bowl of soup and a slice of nostalgia. But But first...

This year, more people than ever in human history had the chance to cast a ballot in democratic elections.

An estimated 4 billion people across 76 countries found themselves at the helm of civic decision-making.

That's more than half the world's population.

Some decisions made this year came as a shock. Others were

well predicted. But anyway you slice it, 2024 reshaped the democratic world. On the intelligence,

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