Indonesia elects a new president next week to replace Jokowi. The leading candidate - Prabowo - is riding the president's coat tail as many hope that he is the best hope for continuation. But what is Jokonomics exactly? From 2014 to 2023, Indonesia grew on average 4.2% per yr👈.

The UK ELT sector is bracing for another blow, as campaigners seek clarity on Labour’s proposed tax increase for private schools which could also include language schools

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#intled

oh for heavens sakes. It was a Goldman Sachs investment theme, not a slogan, which had its moments but not much else, and it's basically a China play. India as also ran, yes. Only China has materially lifted its share of world GDP, and thats pretty much stopped now

Starting Oct. 15th, China will ban all academic tutoring, including 1-on-1 tutoring.

Will update people on how this is carried out as several nephews/nieces are taking the high school entrance test next year.

'The more prestigious a student’s university…the greater their faith in meritocratic advancement. Among the general population, faith in meritocracy drops to 59%, with people’s degree of faith in the system closely correlated to their class.'
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Trade within South Asia is 5% of its total trade v. 50% in East #Asia . What a difference. The Brookings Institution

#China creates “meaningful potential risks for global investors.” This is a revelation?

Apparently, the folks at Davos debated whether the world is deglobalziing or reglobalizing …

I actually have a great deal of sympathy for the argument made by Niall Ferguson – namely that it is hard to “reglobalize” when there hasn’t yet been any real deglobalization …

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The topic has been discussed since the 1990s

Start-ups need an ESG strategy, and that includes global-first ventures focused on #emergingmarkets as well.
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“With almost all internal meetings now conducted in Mandarin…the few remaining non-mainland senior executives, such as equities head Edward Park, are relying on translators to understand what’s being discussed.” Good luck bloomberg.com/news/articles/…

China ESG reckoning looms for investors ft.com/content/55058f… perhaps more an opportunity than an emerging risk

The impact of limiting the outsourcing of jobs wol.iza.org/opinions/impac… via IZA World of Labor

Universities must strive to produce 100,000 PhDs in a decade universityworldnews.com/post.php?story…

China’s youth may not want to 下海 anymore, but that where incremental employment is located. Not the civil service or SOEs. Graduate school seats are also limited. #china #graduateoutcomes

I meditated 15 hours a day for 6 months straight with one of the toughest Buddhist monks on the planet.

Here's what I learned:

The post-COVID 'Great Resignation' comes to Asia asia.nikkei.com/Economy/The-po…

I hope this is the point people realise that 99.9% of crypto and blockchain are total utter bullshit that do absolutely nothing technologically to reduce the need for trust in financial intermediaries. After all this becomes self-evident the only residue will be a CBDC.

Any impact on Revue?