One in three voters live in countries where the quality of elections is worse than it was five years ago, according to the Global State of Democracy Report 2024. "We see turnout dropping also around the world, while protests and riots around elections increase," says Dr Seema Shah, ...
UPDATED JANUARY 2025: If you ask how many countries in the world are there in 2024. Well, the answer is that technically speaking there are 197 countries in the world. From a travel perspective, you could argue there are 215 countries. I’ve visited them all! Although it’s pretty compli...
In the case of hotel programs, this median value is our final point valuation. In the case of airline programs, we determined our final point/mile valuation using a weighted average of economy and business/first-class point values, favoring economy values. This is designed to reflect the value...
It is a measure of excellence and shows the percentage of an institution's output that is among the most impactful papers in the world. This is a size-independent measure. How the Overall Global Scores and Numerical Rankings Were Calculated The 2024-2025 overall ranking methodology weighting ...
Here's howthe start of 2024has been rung in across the world. Pacific islands, including Samoa and Kiribati Island The Pacific nation of Kiribati was the first country to see in the new year. The country's largest island, Kiritimati - which is also known as Christmas Island - entered 202...
On December 3, I'm at the opening ceremony of the 2024 Understanding China Conference. This year’s theme is "Carry through the reform to the end—Chinese modernization and new opportunities for world development." Since 2013, the conference has been held seven times. This year marks the eig...
What and how will China reform in the future? The question is drawing worldwide attention. At the "two sessions," Xi stressed deepening reforms in various sectors "to remove the barriers obstructing the development of new quality productive forces." ...
For the global economy, China’s new production and value will contribute 25% – 30% to global growth. This is a significant benefit for the world. What’s more important is that during this transformation process, China will create a market-oriented, internationalized, and rule-of-law-based...
"2024 is totally different from the ordinary years, not only because of the Paris Olympic Games, and we have two additional very important events in Shanghai and Budapest," Kobinata introduced. "These two events give us a huge impact." ...
Zhou said the recovery of China's consumer market in 2023 is not a simple expansion of scale, but the emergence of some new forms of consumption, such as green consumption and digital consumption. Taking the consumption of new energy vehicles (NEVs) for example, Zhou said, new products and...