Toil and rubble: a report from Turkey
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The Economist
4.3 • 5K Ratings
🗓️ 13 February 2023
⏱️ 31 minutes
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Summary
Our correspondent visits town after devastated town. Poorly enforced building codes are one clear factor in the rising death toll—and a political backlash looms. Britain’s productivity problem is at least partly a problem with bad managers; we look at the substantial gains to be had from better-run companies. And the valuable data to come from an ambitious, national-scale sex survey.
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| 0:00.0 | Hi there. I'm off this week. |
| 0:04.6 | Apparently we're more productive at work after a good holiday. |
| 0:12.1 | So I'm counting this Caribbean rum distillery tour as professional development. Yours calling. Take your holiday as seriously as British Airways |
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| 1:01.0 | Hello and welcome to the intelligence from The Economist. |
| 1:04.4 | In New York, I'm John Fastman. |
| 1:06.8 | And in London, I'm Jason Palmer. |
| 1:08.9 | Every weekday, we provide a fresh perspective on the events shaping your world. |
| 1:15.7 | David Brent, Basil Faulty, even Malvolio. |
| 1:20.4 | Fictional British managers tend to be comic figures. |
| 1:23.6 | Actual British managers are all too often not that good at their jobs. |
| 1:27.8 | That makes the firms they run a lot less productive. |
| 1:32.2 | And an ambitious survey is being carried out door-to-door, |
| 1:36.7 | asking people across the UK all kinds of things about sex. |
| 1:41.4 | Getting honest answers is one challenge, |
| 1:43.6 | another is turning the results into useful public health data. |
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