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IMF’s Ian Parry estimates that a $35/ton carbon tax would be enough to transform global emissions picture. Across G… https://t.co/O5wPpixg47

To shield big banks like Sberbank and VTB from threat of sanctions, Russia uses “expendable" entities to engage in… https://t.co/tdRaUNdYsv

This #map more interesting, more informative and well-designed than you'd expect from a port authority. Great piece… https://t.co/5Cteg2VyVw

#HappyBirthday Luca Badoer, 49. Pic: Monza, October 29th 2006, lining up for a 'Ferrari says goodbye to Michael Sch… https://t.co/fAoi8hdkI7

I have come across a series of interpretations of famous figures as they would look today. Here’s Julius Caesar loo… https://t.co/jJquxDBndD

The Egypt you won't see in any museum in Egypt about Egypt: a countryside family portrait (1930s), a woman fishing… https://t.co/IDJRcrwg3e

Despite the sanctions pressure it has been under, Russia has uncoupled from the dollar since 2013 only to a limited… https://t.co/OrifVlvzrm

Add to this the hidden costs of cars, from filthy air cutting thousands of lives short to the cost to universal hea… https://t.co/jK8pngGUJ6

The weaponization of the dollar that is raising hackles around the world shows up clearly in the number of new addi… https://t.co/0TDuQHmjrs

A point that can’t be made enough… the second half of the twentieth century was just… amazing.… https://t.co/oKa5vXVglI

This makes sense. Maxim Oreshkin is moving up. He is young & perceived as a very skillful technocrat without any re… https://t.co/7PbuLQGEwx

Globally, road accidents kill more people every year than malaria or hiv/aids. Spencer James and other researchers… https://t.co/LybkenR4ud

In most countries for which there are reliable figures, whether rich or poor, back pain is the top cause of disabil… https://t.co/nRDjhz3PBt

America’s rate of old-age poverty is one of the highest in the rich world. Median balance held in retirement accoun… https://t.co/UbgE7cgb7c

The rhetoric of the US immigration policy debate is all about restriction. In reality the Trump administration has… https://t.co/e0P8Fnh3xZ

"Whereas the average Vietnamese makes $269 a month, illegal sand-miners can earn between $700 and $1,000 for every… https://t.co/JNsBuVFWjW

"China has three metres of road per citizen; Congo has three centimetres. Only four out of 26 provincial capitals h… https://t.co/wT8xTnAs3X

In the Congo beer is one of the few commodities available nationwide. Brands Bracongo-Castel and Bralima-Heineken h… https://t.co/jiIolVpD1Z

Long distance passenger traffic on German railways is surging and has caught politicians and railway company nappin… https://t.co/2J9h6L01jk

Healthcares spending in US increases steeply with income (ratio 4:1) but declines in relative terms -> health and i… https://t.co/vYkKwzkpy6

Big Mac index suggests that $ is overvalued: A Big Mac costs 21.50 yuan, or $3.12, in China v. $5.67 in US -> yuan… https://t.co/3Ui87mG2mI

The recovery from the crises of the 1990s it the foundation of Putin’s legitimacy. But the pace of Russia’s growth… https://t.co/LaFlw9aF0h

The ECB has launched its policy review. These are the changes that economist polled by @business expect.… https://t.co/fLOlo0Zeba

COPEC: 80% of cocoa farmers, 4 m people & their families, live on less than $3 a day. Now Ghana and Cote D’Ivoire r… https://t.co/MWWieEUkB3

As fewer American states are willing to carry out executions the number of death sentences is falling to all time l… https://t.co/mnRrkgpqfK

Major Asian EM have responded to the global slowdown with substantial monetary and fiscal stimulus. ING via… https://t.co/DyzJrifPDV

Why did so many countries, from Sweden to Botswana, privatize their telecommunication infrastructures in the 1990s?… https://t.co/IjPbEQRqDP

In the late 1990s the US was carrying out an execution roughly every 4 days. Today the death penalty though still o… https://t.co/0JZQYPq5FI

Since 2006 Swiss pension funds have halved their unhedged fx exposure. Perhaps not surprising given the risk of sho… https://t.co/54nEZqg3hI

One of our biggest assumptions is that the climate emergency is an issue. It's not, it's an era Climate is redefin… https://t.co/xC46Oa0n0y