The Importance of Being a Single Mother

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Avanta Coacheal-Cotti is an international correspondent for the Economist. She visited a non-profit group in Rio de Janeiro that was trying to get women back into the workplace. All of the poor people I met who were women, almost exclusively, were all single mothers.

In a first since 2018, America’s secretary of state is visiting China amid escalating tensions between both countries. Can diplomats successfully stabilise the strained relationship? Latin American countries are in a developmental limbo. We explore why this is disproportionately affecting single mothers. And, come with us to a British seaweed farm bubbling with economic potential.