Zero-sum: the imperilled global economic order
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The Economist
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🗓️ 13 January 2023
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Countries across the world are turning inward, embracing protectionism, subsidies and export controls. This threatens the global order that has lifted hundreds of millions out of poverty, and risks economic conflict. Ethiopia’s newfound peace looks fragile and uncertain. And Mexico’s ballads that critics claim glorify criminality, but fans argue celebrate loyalty, ingenuity and hard work.
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| 0:51.0 | Two months ago, Ethiopia's government struck a deal with Tigrayan forces |
| 0:55.0 | in two years of fighting, |
| 0:57.0 | but with troops still in Tigray preventing the return of refugees, |
| 1:00.0 | the resulting peace is fragile and uncertain. |
| 1:04.0 | And most Mexicans could sing at least a bar or two of a narco-currito, |
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