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The Fastest-Growing Economies

Visual Capitalist’s Marcus Lu created the following chart, visualizing GDP growth forecasts from the IMF’s October 2023 World Economic Outlook. Unsurprisingly, many of these countries are located in Asia and Sub-Saharan Africa—two of the world’s fastest growing regions. For India, data and forecasts are presented on a fiscal year basis (starting April). Continue reading below for additional…

The future of TV marketing

Perspectives from the Global Entertainment & Media Outlook 2021-2025 For entertainment and media companies around the world, the past 18 months have been a period of remarkable uncertainty and challenge. The well-known forces that were changing our world—digitisation, globalisation, disruption, shifting consumer habits and demographics—were amplified by a powerful new one, the first global pandemic…

UK Research & Innovation Funding

Launched in April 2018, UKRI is a non-departmental public body sponsored by the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy (BEIS). The organisation brings together the seven disciplinary research councils, Research England, which is responsible for supporting research and knowledge exchange at higher education institutions in England, and the UK’s innovation agency, Innovate UK. See…

Horizon Europe : Funding for UK-based research & innovation

Horizon Europe is an EU research and innovation programme. It has a budget of €95.5 billion and runs until 2027. If you’re a UK-based researcher or innovator, you can apply to most Horizon Europe funding opportunities on the same terms as EU-based applicants. Reasons to apply for Horizon Europe research and innovation funding The UK’s…

Fall of a Nation

Trade Buying – Tyre Recycle

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UK to be the first European country to launch spacecraft and satellites from home soil.

Another step towards space exploration from UK soil has been unlocked, with the passing of the spaceflight regulations, Transport Secretary Grant Shapps has announced today (29 July 2021). The legislation provides the framework to regulate the UK space industry and enable launches to take place from British soil for the very first time. It will unlock a potential £4 billion…

Sierra Leone’s unique specialty coffee beans to be sector game-changer

There are 124 species of coffee beans but the world’s producers have harvested only two varieties arabica and robusta for 99% of the strong-flavoured liquid enjoyed by consumers. Arabica is known for its smooth, elegant taste and requires a cool tropical climate to grow. Robusta plants can withstand higher temperatures but the taste of their…

Trinidadian cocoa bean samples ranked among world’s top 50

Cocoa bean samples from three local farms have been ranked within the world’s top 50 at the 2021 edition of the international Cocoa of Excellence Programme. In an update, the Cocoa Development Company of Trinidad and Tobago said Annette Mills, Winthrop Harewood and farmers of the Four Roads Taman Cluster were all commended for their beans, which were…

British-Moroccan undersea tunnel

RABAT–The British government led by Boris Johnson is studying the completion of an undersea tunnel linking Gibraltar to Tangiers, in partnership with the Moroccan government. London has seriously embarked on studying the project that will link Europe to Africa, as trade relations with Morocco are developed. In addition to the partnership agreement signed in 2020…