Editor's Picks: January 1st 2024

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  Happy New Year!

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  It's Monday the 1st of January, 2024.

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  I'm Aura Ogunbiyi.

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  You'll usually find me co-hosting our daily podcast, The Intelligence.

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  This is Editor's Picks,

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  where we bring you a selection of articles read aloud from The Economist,

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  exclusively for subscribers.

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  This week, we're doing something a bit different on Editor's Picks.

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  Every year...

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  My colleague Tom Standage, The Economist's deputy editor,

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  puts together a guide to the coming year called The World Ahead.

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  The World Ahead is organized in the same way as the weekly edition of The Economist.

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  It features reporting spanning the globe, as well as the stories in the world of business,

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  finance, science, technology and culture.

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  But the world ahead is different in that it gives space for future-gazing analysis,

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  predictions and speculation from our correspondents.

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