Debtors’ prism: mounting crises of Africa’s loans
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The Economist
4.3 • 5K Ratings
🗓️ 31 May 2023
⏱️ 29 minutes
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Summary
Many of the continent’s economies are hamstrung by debt—much of it held internationally. We look at the growing need for closer co-operation between China, Western creditors and multilateral institutions. A city on Ukraine’s front line has become an unlikely locus for love stories. And unpicking the link between workers’ productivity and their drugs of choice.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello, I'm currently out of office. |
| 0:04.4 | An article I read recently said we're more relaxed and more productive after a good break. |
| 0:14.4 | So I've gone to Barbados for a month for science. |
| 0:22.4 | Yours, Toby. |
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| 1:06.4 | Hello and welcome to the intelligence from The Economist. |
| 1:09.5 | I'm your host, Jason Palmer. |
| 1:11.6 | Every weekday, we provide a fresh perspective on the events shaping your world. |
| 1:20.6 | Even amid the thuddingly repetitive grimness of war, |
| 1:23.6 | there are stories of love triumphing to be found. |
| 1:31.1 | We climb aboard an express train line in Ukraine's Harkiv province, |
| 1:33.5 | where many of those stories are playing out. |
| 1:40.4 | And there's a curious correlation between recent slipping American productivity numbers and a pinched supply of ADHD drugs like Adderall. |
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