The Intelligence: Naan inflationary growth
The Intelligence from The Economist
The Economist
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🗓️ 3 April 2024
⏱️ 24 minutes
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Summary
India is not the first country to leapfrog from poverty-induced undernourishment to also having an obesity crisis—but a number of factors make that a far chunkier problem than it is elsewhere. A shock local-election result in Turkey suggests the country’s strongman leader may not be so strong (9:48). And China’s solar-panel bonanza upsets the lucrative market for ultra-pure sand (17:43).
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| 0:00.0 | The Economist. |
| 0:04.0 | Hello and welcome to the Intelligence from The Economist. |
| 0:10.0 | Hello and welcome to the Intelligence from The Economist. I'm Ora Okenbye. |
| 0:15.0 | Every weekday we provide a fresh perspective on the events shaping your world. Rachel Taib Erdogan's re-election as Turkey's president last year made his position look comfortable. |
| 0:30.0 | But in this weekend's local elections, the opposition won, big, all over the country. |
| 0:35.8 | We ask if it's at last time to start betting against Mr. Erdogan. |
| 0:41.3 | And did you know that sand is the most consumed natural resource in the world after water? |
| 0:47.0 | It's everywhere. |
| 0:48.0 | But the really high quality sand, the kind needed to make the screen of the device that you're listening to me on is harder to find and thus getting more expensive. First up though, though, there's something troubling going on with |
| 1:11.6 | there's something troubling going on with wastelines in India. |
| 1:15.0 | For a long while the country was associated with poverty and malnutrition. |
| 1:20.0 | These days there are far fewer undernourished people and at the same time arise in obese ones. |
| 1:28.0 | It's a trend seen in other developing economies, but in India it'll prove harder to reverse. |
| 1:35.0 | In the decade and a half to 2021, the proportion of thin women in India hoved, |
| 1:40.0 | even as that of fat ones doubled, |
| 1:42.0 | and that trend was even more pronounced among men. |
| 1:45.5 | Leo Morani is an India correspondent for the economist and is based in Mumbai, which he insists on calling Bombay. |
| 1:53.0 | Today 9.8% of Indian women and 5.4% of men are obese, |
| 1:58.0 | up from 1.2 and 0.5% in 1990. |
| 2:02.0 | I mean rising obesity sounds like a problem we've heard about before on the show |
| 2:05.8 | quite a lot. It's true I mean what I described is very common in developing |
| 2:10.6 | countries this is what academics and policy makers call a dual burden of |
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