The African mining world, and not only that, is hell. But it is not very well known. There are names, like those of the South Africans of Gemfields, which are unknown to the general public, and yet they have a century of history and are number one
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Coca-Cola is bad for you. It should be written on it, as one does on cigarettes, but we are far from such a possibility. Those who drink too much of it get sick[1] . As in Chiapas: half a century has passed since Mexico’s ‘sad face of
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A wild, swampy and inhospitable island until two hundred years ago, Singapore is now a place where glass and concrete skyscrapers coexist with alleys teeming with rickshaws. It is the planet’s economic capital, futuristic par excellence, the one that boasts the most records for design, efficiency,
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Neo-colonialism is no longer based on the military occupation of developing countries and the slave trade, but the substance has changed little. Fragile democracies, especially in Africa, are victims of coups, inter-ethnic and inter-religious conflicts, corruption, but above all of the interference of foreign capital and the
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Shein. Not a household name for anyone over 30. During the pandemic, his low profile, his being shrouded in mystery, made him the most popular global ultra-fast fashion retailer[1], deified by teenagers squeezed by the economic crisis. In the space of a couple of years, Shein has
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A little over a hundred years ago, the idea of mass-produced automobiles seemed unthinkable, and yet it happened: but scientific and industrial progress continues to accelerate, and today we are already facing a new prospect: the self-driving car. A self-driving car (autonomous vehicle, self-driving car, robot car)
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In the world there are conflicts overshadowed by too many vested interests. Conflicts that turn the lives of tens of thousands of defenceless people upside down, but which no one tells about, because there are no good guys, only bad guys, everywhere. That of Cabinda is
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Taiwan is a nation in the balance. Much more so than the state of Israel ever was. Since the international agreement for its independence (1948) [1], the island of Formosa has always looked fearfully across the channel, dreading the day when Chinese armies would annihilate Taiwanese democracy.
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When Orson Welles presented his masterpiece ‘Citizen Kane’ in cinemas in 1941, world journalism was at the height of its influence[1]. Despite the fact that the world’s population still lives in depressing literacy conditions, at least one in ten citizens buys a daily newspaper every day, and
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We at IBI World have avoided, as far as possible, talking about the Russian invasion of Ukraine. Whatever is said, we are talking in circles, because we do not know the truth about anything: neither about the military actions, nor about what triggered them (although experience teaches
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