Marshalling resources: rebuilding Ukraine

Around one-fifth of Ukraine’s population has fled. The country’s GDP has plummeted and foreign investors are staying away. Even as the fighting rages, the world has already begun thinking about how to <a href="https://www.economist.com/international/2022/11/08/donors-are-already-mulling-a-marshall-plan-for-ukraine?utm_campaign=a.io&utm_medium=audio.podcast.np&utm_source=theintelligence&utm_content=discovery.content.anonymous.tr_shownotes_na-na_article&utm_term=sa.listeners" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">rebuild the country</a>. How a 36-year-old treaty helped heal the <a href="https://www.economist.com/the-economist-explains/2023/01/14/how-humans-healed-the-ozone-layer?utm_campaign=a.io&utm_medium=audio.podcast.np&utm_source=theintelligence&utm_content=discovery.content.anonymous.tr_shownotes_na-na_article&utm_term=sa.listeners" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">ozone layer</a>. And why the pandemic did not lead to a wave of job-killing <a href="https://www.economist.com/finance-and-economics/2022/12/20/the-pandemic-and-the-triumph-of-the-luddites?utm_campaign=a.io&utm_medium=audio.podcast.np&utm_source=theintelligence&utm_content=discovery.content.anonymous.tr_shownotes_na-na_article&utm_term=sa.listeners" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">automation</a>. <hr><p style='color:grey; font-size:0.75em;'> Hosted on Acast. See <a style='color:grey;' target='_blank' rel='noopener noreferrer' href='https://acast.com/privacy'>acast.com/privacy</a> for more information.</p>