Never-ending storeys: rebuilding Turkey
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The Economist
4.3 • 5K Ratings
🗓️ 14 April 2023
⏱️ 29 minutes
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Summary
It will be years until the country recovers from February’s devastating earthquakes—but progress toward that goal will determine whether President Recep Tayyip Erdogan wins another mandate next month. Oft-overlooked data suggest that Africa’s baby boom is slowing, in a “demographic transition” the world has seen before. And remembering Traute Lafrenz, the last leafleter of the “White Rose” Nazi resistance.
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| 1:01.0 | Hello and welcome to the intelligence from The Economist. |
| 1:04.2 | I'm Jason Palmer. |
| 1:05.4 | And I'm Oire Ogunby. |
| 1:07.5 | Every weekday, we provide a fresh perspective on the events shaping your world. |
| 1:14.6 | Policymakers, NGOs and others endlessly fret about explosive population growth in sub-Saharan Africa. |
| 1:21.6 | But they seem to be overlooking data that suggest Africa's baby boom is slowing in a demographic transition |
| 1:28.9 | just like the one that happened in Asia. |
| 1:32.5 | And, in Nazi Germany, the White Rose Group thought of themselves as the nation's conscience, |
| 1:38.3 | but to Nazi leaders, they were propagandists spreading treasonous leaflets. |
| 1:44.0 | We reflect on the life of Traus-Lef Frans, the last of the group's members. |
| 1:49.0 | But first. |
| 1:58.0 | It's been just over two months since Turkey, along with neighbouring Syria, was hit by two |
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