Please join me as I explore the surprises coming with Climate Change, the Pandemic and the War in Ukraine from a background of studying development in 40 nations.
Prostitution is a $30 billion industry world-wide.
Aid agencies focus on big stuff like roads and electric power. Governments focus on small stuff like financing small business.
The UK is leaving the EU because it is more North American than European. The challenge is keeping Scotland and Northern Ireland from leaving the UK.
A nation like Japan with a declining population. Not just more deaths than births but net negative immigration. Tough funding the pensions and health care of an aging society when you lack young taxpayers. The famous Italian culture is at risk.
The pandemic is changing western societies. Public health and other spending coming home.
Another developed nation facing population decline. But here the issues are high mortality, a poor public health system and high levels of emigration. A great power sustained through exports of LNG.
