This summer, the Cost of Living is revisiting some of our favourite stories from the past season. This week we take a closer look at population numbers, and also explain the history of pipelines and how they are perceived. Plus we talk the surge in sales for Black authors in recent years.
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FDI, also known as foreign direct investment, has been virtually solely concentrated in Africa on the exploitation and export of natural resources for over a century. However, the momentum has changed after the turn of the 2000 and the tendency has finally changed in recent years. Global investors are more likely to visit Africa for their people’s promises than for their actual property.
Oil and mining now have a comparatively proportion of long-term foreign investment, with most investors focusing on telecoms, retail, and services. Over half of the FDI in the last seven years has been in the extractive industry.
5 Books Culturally Aware Americans Should Read This Summer
May 3, 2021
Five noteworthy books recently published seem, at first or second glance, to be totally unrelated to one another. Collectively, however, they address critical public issues in remarkably well-researched and illuminating ways.
Each addresses monumental, even foundational human issues intimately related to what it means to be human, how we order our lives together at the most basic level, and the nature of truth and how we can know it. Taken together, they provide a unique and much-needed perspective on what matters in an age of increasingly prevalent lies.
Consider putting them on your summer reading list, or diving in right now.
If China’s census data show population decline, every game changes: global warming projections, global population projections, geopolitical and economic projections