Are We Going to Diversify the Economy?

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Guiana was the fastest growing economy in the world during the pandemic. The government is promising to channel all these petro dollas into development. Ashley, seeing giana's finance minister, whom i also interviewed there, he talked a lot about economic diversification.

Voters in the Philippines choose a new president on Monday. The likely winner is a scion of one of the country’s most controversial families. Exxon struck oil off the coast of Guyana a few years back. How will becoming a petrostate change this small country on South America’s northern coast? And koalas are adorable but imperilled—by development, stray dogs and now, a quickly spreading bacterial infection.