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Rich and poor consumers are seeing their spending patterns converge

It will not work, and is wrong in principle

Make the semi-desert bloom by enridging it

A computer model has found some counterintuitive solutions

That depends where those people end up

A handpicked article read aloud from the latest issue of The Economist