The Intelligence: Naan inflationary growth
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The Economist
4.3 • 5K Ratings
🗓️ 3 April 2024
⏱️ 28 minutes
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Summary
India is not the first country to leapfrog from poverty-induced undernourishment to also having an obesity crisis—but a number of factors make that a far chunkier problem than it is elsewhere. A shock local-election result in Turkey suggests the country’s strongman leader may not be so strong (9:48). And China’s solar-panel bonanza upsets the lucrative market for ultra-pure sand (17:43).
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| 1:07.9 | Hello and welcome to the intelligence from The Economist. |
| 1:10.9 | I'm Jason Palmer. |
| 1:12.6 | And I'm O'Augnbee. |
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| 1:19.6 | Richard Tayyip Erdogan's re-election as Turkey's president last year made his position look comfortable. But in this weekend's local elections, the opposition won, big, all over the country. |
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