Teenagers read worse than they did, the newest PISA scores find. Ban their social media if you like; the adults, who vote, fare no better. Amidst a deluge of short-form...
Emerging Europe Insight
The byline Emerging Europe Insight is used to denote articles to which several members of the Emerging Europe/Reinvantage team may have contributed.
Germany showed the world what reuniting a country costs. For Moldova, the road west through Brussels looks cheaper and considerably safer. It’s often said that the...
OpenAI is putting ads in ChatGPT and Anthropic will not touch them. It is hardly a reinvention, yet ads never stopped anyone using Google. Artificial...
A competitive Africa requires functional institutions and modern technology. Not just declarations of intent, but implementation capacity. Africa trades as much as East...
Reykjavik wants the market without the politics. So do Europe’s wealthiest hold-outs, and Britain, above all, ought to be taking note. So Iceland will not be...
Airlines are dividing their cabins into an increasingly wide array of often confusing options. Do you fly Business Light or Premium Economy? It used to be so simple...
Russia’s election fools nobody, which is rather the point. It also hands Putin a stick with which to beat a Ukraine that cannot vote at all. Oh the suspense...
Two-fifths of the world’s land is degrading. The COP charged with halting it sits in Mongolia this month, starved of money and of attention. Think COP, think...
The taxi trade rarely answers ride-hailing with a better cab. Where it can, it answers with the statute book, and calls it fair competition. There are plenty of things...
The city that abolished outdoor advertising is having second thoughts. Two decades on, the admen it banished have found their way back in. Walking around São Paulo for...
Post-Brexit, millions of young Europeans want an English-taught degree. Central and Eastern Europe’s universities have an opportunity. In the often fierce but...
Building infrastructure is a game for giants. Keeping it running, especially the clean-energy grid, is where nimble start-ups now break in. As anyone who has driven over...