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Branding Bans and Empty Rotas: Whitehall’s Procurement Push Collides with Graduate Hiring
Graduate pipelines into teaching, prisons and social care are caught in a Whitehall rules squeeze. Sector leaders warn that rigid procurement terms—forcing well‑known schemes to rebrand when bidding for funds—risk hobbling recruitment just as the government battles chronic staffing shortages.…
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Anger in the Streets: Kenya’s Growth Story Meets an Impatient Generation
A decade of macroeconomic gains and tech‑driven optimism has not translated into enough good jobs. As youth‑led protests roil the country, Kenya’s political class faces a stark test: turn stability and success into momentum that matches the aspirations of a…
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Back to the Barrel: Big Oil Ramps Up the Hunt for New Reserves
A slower‑than‑expected energy transition and choppy prices have pushed the world’s largest oil companies to pivot back to exploration and reserve replacement, with Q2 2025 earnings signaling a decisive shift away from pure‑play renewables and toward drill‑ready prospects. London –…
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Too Much of a Good Thing: How Spain’s Solar Boom Singed the Power Market
Backed by Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez’s renewable push and an abundance of sunshine, Spain raced to the top tier of solar nations. Now midday oversupply, negative prices and curtailments are eroding profits and testing grids—forcing a pivot to storage, interconnections…
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Brainpower, Not Just Bandwidth: How Human Ingenuity Could Restart Growth in the Age of AI
With economies losing steam and algorithms everywhere, the scarcest input is still human discovery. Policymakers are racing to turn cognitive capital into GDP—without waiting for machines to invent. VIENNA —Across advanced and emerging economies alike, growth has become stubborn. Investment…
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High Summer for Trump, High-Stakes for Prices
The president’s best political weather may already be behind him as tariffs, tight labor supply and policy uncertainty threaten a renewed inflation flare‑up. Welcome to the high summer of Donald Trump. The polls are buoyant, the rallies are raucous and,…
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Leaving the Ward: Why More British Doctors Are Packing for Abroad
Better pay and working conditions overseas are luring UK medics from the NHS — turning a once cost-saving monopoly into an Achilles heel LONDON For decades, the National Health Service’s quiet advantage was its sheer scale. As the near‑monopoly employer…
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Tariffs on Gold Bars Jolt the Bullion Trade
Washington’s surprise move to sweep one‑kilo and 100‑ounce bars into new duties delivers a fresh blow to Switzerland—and tests whether there’s any method to tariff‑driven mayhem. The global bullion market woke up to a shock this week: the United States…
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Corporate Giants Tighten Information Flow on Takeover Deals Amid Leak Concerns
Investment banks face pressure to restrict staff access to live transactions as regulators probe suspicious trading patterns Several of the world’s largest corporations have instructed their investment banks to review and potentially reduce the number of employees informed about live…
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‘Wake‑up Call’: France Moves to Cap Profits at Heavily Indebted Lab Chains
A government audit faults aggressive roll‑ups and high leverage; new limits tie earnings on reimbursed tests to public tariffs and trigger clawbacks. PARIS — France will cap profits at large private laboratory groups after a government‑led audit found that years…
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