Evergrande, Instagram’s harm to teen girls, and India’s K-craze
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We gather the numbers to know from the week’s biggest economic news stories so you can impress your friends.
Another week has gone by, and Friday is here. What’s the progress on vaccines? Depends on who you ask. Is the pandemic getting better or worse? Depends where you look. And how is the global economy faring as it tries to bounce back from COVID-19? Again, it is in the eye of the beholder. The United Nations warned this week that developing countries could shoulder the lion’s share of the pandemic’s costs.
This week we had an array of numbers and stories to choose from. We handpicked bite-sized, easy-to-digest, news nuggets for you – five numbers we think you need to know going into the weekend.
Some are updates on already dismal situations such as the worsening petrol price crisis in Lebanon. Others are new discoveries. The Wall Street Journal this week revealed that Facebook knows exactly how its photo-sharing Instagram app is hurting girls’ mental health.
