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Canva CEO Melanie Perkins
Feb 20, 2026We meet Melanie Perkins, the CEO and co-founder of graphic design platform Canva, which has hundreds of millions of users and a valuation of nearly $40 billion. Despite her immense wealth, Melanie Pe...
Why is India striking so many trade deals?
Feb 19, 2026In just a few months, the country has signed or advanced several major trade deals with other nations. Is it a reflection of the growing size of the Indian economy - it is on course to become the thi...
Why are so many French restaurants closing?
Feb 18, 2026We’re in France, where traditional eateries, bistros, and brasseries, once a huge part of the economy, as well as the culture of the country, are disappearing fast. A few years ago, if you drove thro...
How ethical is 'ethical' investing?
Feb 17, 2026We’re in Toronto in Canada, North America's second-biggest financial centre after New York, where so-called ethical investing has become big business, with many investors choosing funds they believe a...
Is AI about to transform food production?
Feb 16, 2026We go right to the cutting edge of food production and glimpse into the future of farming. Farmers are increasingly using artificial intelligence-powered machines to try to maximise their crops and r...
The banker who loaned to women when no one else would
Feb 13, 2026Jennifer Riria grew up in a rural village in Kenya, juggled motherhood and university studies in her late teens, and ended up running one of the biggest microfinance institutions for women in Africa, ...
What next for Venezuela?
Feb 12, 2026Six weeks after the capture of President Nicolás Maduro, Venezuela appears to be shifting its economic strategy. The government is reopening its crucial oil industry to foreign investment and redirec...
Biohacking: where fad meets finance?
Feb 11, 2026Biohackers say they're making their bodies and brains run better by hacking their biology. And it's not just kitchen counter experimentation anymore. There's now an entire industry promising to optimi...
After the cyclone: Can Sri Lanka’s economy recover?
Feb 10, 2026Sri Lanka: a country long loved and marketed as a tropical paradise is reeling after Cyclone Ditwah, which hit the island nation last November. The storm left a third of the island in ruins. Hundreds...
Is Poland’s “economic miracle” for real?
Feb 09, 2026Poland’s economy is expected to be the fastest-growing in Europe this year according to the European Union, with the spending power of its average worker on course to overtake that of Japan. So how, t...