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UN/YEMEN – UN sounds ‘wake-up call’ to save millions of Yemenis from famine (Al Jazeera)

The window to prevent a famine in war-torn Yemen is narrowing, with a new study showing that millions of people in the country will...

IRAN/ISRAEL – Iran accuses West of backing Israel on scientist assassination (Barbara Bibbo, Al Jazeera)

Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif has accused Israel of killing its top nuclear scientist Mohsen Fakhrizadeh amid the silence and complicity of the...

BAHRAIN/ISRAEL/OCCUPIED WEST BANK – Bahrain open to imports from illegal Israeli settlements (Al Jazeera)

Bahrain’s imports from Israel will not be subject to distinctions between products made within Israel and those from illegal settlements in occupied territory, the...

USA/IRAQ – US ‘withdrawing some Baghdad embassy staff’ amid regional tension (Sofia Barbarani, Al Jazeera)

The United States embassy in Baghdad is withdrawing some of its staff ahead of the first anniversary of the US killing of top Iranian...

AUSTRALIA/AFGHANISTAN – Australian war crimes and racist fantasies in Afghanistan (Sahar Ghumkhor, Al Jazeera)

Last week the distressing details of a four-year inquiry into the Australian Defence Force’s war crimes in Afghanistan were finally released to the public....

EUROPE – European financial integration during the COVID-19 crisis: Insights from a new indicator (Stefano Borgioli, Carl-Wolfram Horn, Urszula Kochanska, Philippe Molitor, Francesco Paolo...

COVID-19 represents an unprecedented shock in terms of the scale and speed of its effects. On 30 January, the World Health Organization declared COVID-19...

CAPITALISMS/INCOME INEQUALITY – Capitalist systems and income inequality (Marco Ranaldi, Branko Milanovic, VOXEU)

Similar levels of income inequality may be characterised by completely different distributions of capital and labour. People who belonged to the highest income decile...

AFRICA – The political economy of Africa’s interior-to-coast roads (Roberto Bonfatti, Steven Poelhekke , VOXEU)

One striking fact about Africa is that paved roads have evolved mostly in an interior-to-coast direction, and not only during colonial periods. Figures 1...

PYRAMIDAL BUSINESS GROUPS – Using regulation to dismantle pyramidal business groups: Evidence from the US, Japan, Korea and Israel (Assaf Hamdani, Konstantin Kosenko, Yishay...

Large business entities are often perceived as valuable players in the economy and the product of bold entrepreneurship and disruptive innovation. Nevertheless, they are...
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