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The World 2024

What Biden has to do to beat Trump. Martin Wolf on globalisation; Gillian Tett on the J M Keynes view. Xi and Putin defy ‘rules-based’ order. AI’s deep mysteries. 2024 ‘year of elections’. Latin America’s chance. Africa’s prospects. Davos nostalgia.

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Bargainer Biden needs to counter the age factor
In a long political career, the president has always aimed for that transactional space where sufficient consensus can be achieved. What are his hopes this time?
Martin Wolf: the world economy’s story remains one of integration
Hyperglobalisation is dead. Globalisation is not
Gillian Tett: Look back to judge chances of a global future
Maybe it’s time to dust off John Maynard Keynes’s warning about taking borderless prosperity for granted
A ‘multipolar’ world defies the ‘rules-based’ order
What do the words mean and why do they matter? It depends on which side you ask
Investors chase the grail of unravelling AI’s mysteries
Dominance of the fast emerging technology by a few large companies looks likely to develop into a far more competitive era
Democracy under threat in the ‘year of elections’
About half of the world’s adult population will be entitled to vote — against a backdrop of growing illiberalism

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