Syrians in Turkey Are Staying Forever

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Piotre Elisburr is a middleeast correspondent for the economist. Across the arab world, girls are still less likely than boys to be in school but when they are in the classroom, they are vastly out performing boys. Boys doing badly in school has a big drag on the economy and a bunch of insecure young men who think that their livelihoods depend on keeping better educated women out of work.

North Korea’s zero-covid strategy appears to have failed. The country has officially acknowledged 162 cases; the true number is probably orders of magnitude more. The country’s health-care system is inadequate, and pre-existing conditions such as tuberculosis and malnutrition are rampant. With elections impending in Turkey, politicians have begun competing with each other to scapegoat refugees. And why girls outperform boys in the Arab world’s schools.