The Intelligence: Faith-based reeling
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The Economist
4.3 • 5K Ratings
🗓️ 20 February 2024
⏱️ 27 minutes
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Summary
China’s firms are shedding value at pace and foreign investors are starting to look elsewhere. We ask why faith is fading in a market that once looked unstoppable. Slam poetry, an American invention of the 1980s, is now conquering Francophone Africa (08:54). And why there are ever fewer athletes who excel at more than one sport (17:32).
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| 1:00.8 | The Economist |
| 1:06.0 | Hello and welcome to the intelligence from The Economist. |
| 1:11.6 | I'm Oire Ogunbe. |
| 1:12.6 | And I'm Jason Palmer. |
| 1:14.6 | Every weekday, we provide a fresh perspective on the events shaping your world. |
| 1:19.6 | In one of the most sexist countries in Africa and probably the world, women are finding a new outlet to vent about injustice. |
| 1:30.3 | Slam poetry. The words of the poets, or Leslamoos, as they're called, are deliberately vulgar, provocative and cathartic. |
| 1:41.3 | And if you look through the sporting record, there are plenty of people who have managed to win games or league titles or Olympic medals in more than one sport. |
| 1:51.0 | But these multi-talented athletes are getting more and more rare. We ask why. |
| 1:56.0 | First up, though. |
| 2:05.6 | Less than a decade ago, the mood in China's markets was optimistic. |
| 2:11.6 | The economy was growing at over 6% a year, |
| 2:15.6 | foreign investors were piling in, and a cohort of wealthy business |
| 2:20.2 | people were emerging, living the Chinese dream. |
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