How about this 46-character title: The World Ditches Free Markets As Protectionism Rises; Africans Lose Faith in Democracy
This week’s covers | Oct 7th 2023 Edition
- How we saw the world
- SOME WEEKS, including this one, we publish more than one cover.
- In most of the world, we consider the rise of “homeland economics”, a protectionist, high-subsidy, intervention-heavy ideology administered by an ambitious state.
- We argue that governments are systematically jettisoning the principles that made the world rich. But they are making a big mistake.
- Leader Are free markets history?
- Special report Governments across the world are discovering “homeland economics”
- In the Middle East and Africa, we look at why Africans are losing faith in democracy. Coups are becoming more common there.
- Afrobarometer, a pollster, has found that the share of Africans who prefer democracy to any other form of government has fallen from 75% in 2012 to 66%. Unfortunately, the alternative will be much worse.
- Leader Why Africans are losing faith in democracy
- Middle East and Africa Genocide returns to Darfur