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Ants can teach us plenty on how to manage congestion. : Charlie Stinchcomb CC BY 2.0

Ants can teach us a lot about dealing with traffic congestion but there is one stumbling block.

Gridlock unlocked

Ants show the way to beating traffic jams

Ants can teach us a lot about dealing with traffic congestion but there is one stumbling block.

Society
By 2100, 100 Chinese workers may be supporting 120 retired people. : vhines200 (Flickr) CC 2.0

China’s economic and family planning policies of the 1970s ushered in a ‘golden age’ of growth. But as China ages, keeping it golden will be a challenge.

Riding the age wave

China’s older people risk curtailing the prosperity they created

China’s economic and family planning policies of the 1970s ushered in a ‘golden age’ of growth. But as China ages, keeping it golden will be a challenge.

Society
Quality healthcare, education and work are all vital to harvest the full benefits of a demographic dividend. : ‘Crowd down the street’ by TheBigTouffe is available at https://bit.ly/3UPeiE5 Licensed under CC BY 2.0

The benefits of a growing demographic are not guaranteed. Governments need to ensure the right tools are in place as well.

Riding the age wave

Three essentials to cashing in on population growth

The benefits of a growing demographic are not guaranteed. Governments need to ensure the right tools are in place as well.

Economy
Challenges to the supply and demand sides of food in India is increasing poverty across the country. : Anurag Gautam, Unsplash CC BY 4.0

India’s inflation problem is making hunger worse and attempts to fix inflation may just add to poverty.

Affordable nutrition

India’s social safety net offers lessons as food prices rocket up

Economy
Pacific Islanders’ lack of mobility during COVID-19 was crushing for both their economies, and the fruit industry in Australia and New Zealand. : DFAT (Flickr) CC 2.0

Encouraging work abroad schemes could help Pacific Island nations to steer their way clear of crippling debt.

Pacific primer

Mobile workers key to Pacific prosperity

Economy
Fiji’s economy relies on tourism, but after COVID-19, it faces debt levels of 80 percent of GDP. : David Jones (Flickr) CC 2.0

Rising debt and declining income seem to add up to an austere future for Pacific Island nations. But belt-tightening may make things worse.

Pacific primer

The Pacific’s spiralling debt – and what governments can do about it

Politics
The rise of Hindu nationalism in India coincided with increased globalism : Sara Phillips, 360info

With a new cold war afoot, states are being asked to choose sides. For India, self-identity and domestic politics will all come to bear.

New geopolitics

The new world order and India’s quandary

Conflict
The platforms billions of us use have amassed enormous power. : Michael Joiner, 360info

Backgrounder: 529 words

360info investigates how today’s platforms are driving inequality and how both regulation and new technologies might shape the future web, for better or worse.

6 perspectives

6 perspectives
Special Report

Platforms and power

Society
EU Vice-President Margrethe Vestager has identified some of the new changes that ever-growing Big Tech companies present. (Picture: David Fitzgerald/Web Summit via Sportsfile, Flickr. CC BY 2.0 https://bit.ly/3ln7AVn) : David Fitzgerald/Web Summit via Sportsfile, Flickr.

The European Union’s Digital Markets Act is a bold, innovative attempt to do what no power has successfully done: mitigate the power of tech giants.

Platforms and power

EU policy aims for Big Tech ‘gatekeepers’

Society