Ricardo David Lopes, Consultant
When, shortly after taking office as President of Angola, João Lourenço appeared on social media portrayed in good-natured memes as the “Relentless Exonerator”, following the real tsunami of resignations of public officials he started in his...
Salim Cripton Valá, Chairman of the Board of Directors of the Mozambique Stock Exchange
Stock Exchanges are seen as the barometers of economies, following trends in economies, positively influencing the business environment and the competitiveness of economies. Mozambique is not,...
James Astill, Washington bureau chief and Lexington columnist, The Economist Washington, DCW
The year ahead in America will be a big improvement on its awful predecessor. The country was wracked by such a series of scandals and disasters in 2020...
Jaime Nogueira Pinto
The 2020 US elections were one of the most tense and bipartisan in the history of the United States. The projections by most Polling Institutes and the media hinted that Joe Biden would win by a large...
José Galamba de Oliveira, President at Portuguese Association of Insurers
Between 1 January and 30 June 2021, Portugal takes over the rotating Presidency of the Council of the European Union. It is the fourth time that Portugal holds the presidency...
It all started 22 years ago on Madison Avenue. Three of the world’s most senior financial PR professionals met to discuss a ground-breaking alliance, that would change the shape of the communications industry.
Over two days in late April 2023, The Economist spent over eight hours in conversation with Dr Kissinger. Just weeks before his 100th birthday, the former secretary of state and national security adviser laid out his concerns about the risks of great power conflict and offered solutions for how to avoid it. This is a transcript of the conversation, lightly edited for clarity.
A new geopolitical and economic order is being written through the emergence of China as an economic, military and diplomatic superpower and threatening the status of the United States. We are heading towards a multipolar world in which the search for strategic autonomy is changing the dynamics of international trade for the worse. Nothing will be more determinant to the world’s destiny over forthcoming years than the relationship between Beijing and Washington. Europe risks being a mere bystander.
Mozambique two decades ago was a very different country than it is today. The population in 2003 had just broken 19 million, today it totals 34 million, which corresponds to an increase of practically 79%, an explosion in growth in a continuing trend that undoubtedly reflects a very relevant factor to take into account as regards this country.
