Vinjeru Mkandawire
@VinjeruM
Britain Correspondent covering biz/finance at @TheEconomist | London via Lilongwe
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My cover story this week is on a remarkable global shift: the diminishing preference for baby boys around the world - and the first inklings of a bias towards girls. I'd love for you to read it.
The reasons behind the growing preference for girls and the relative devaluation of boys are not at all clear. But the social ills that afflict men in much of the rich world may play a part econ.st/43HFfjX Illustration: Alva Skog
Wealthy people are often accused of crying wolf. This time feels different econ.st/3ZRQLH0
A very interesting read, thank you @VinjeruM and congrats on the cover story! economist.com/leaders/2025/0…
“Girls are increasingly considered the prize.” @VinjeruM tells “The Intelligence” why parents’ long-standing preference for boys over girls is now diminishing econ.st/4kBKmrH
Faaaaaaaaascinating cover package this week from @VinjeruM and @robertguest1 economist.com/leaders/2025/0…
The noxious practice of aborting girls simply for being girls has become dramatically less common. The preference for having boys is declining. But what comes next may not be simple or trouble-free econ.st/4jCZgwD Cover image: Lisa Sheehan
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Six months after the election: growth is slow, businesses are grumbling, bond markets are sceptical. What's gone so wrong for Labour on the economy? Quick thread below ruminating on my latest (written w/ @VinjeruM) in this weekend's @TheEconomist: economist.com/britain/2025/0… 1/
The decline in remote working hits Britain’s housing market econ.st/3WecOpz
Column, slightly off the news: How British-Nigerians quietly made their way to the top | A story of modern migration has had extraordinary results economist.com/britain/2024/1…
Farmers in Britain have sought alternative income streams for decades. But while their decision to diversify may not be new; the need has become more urgent for many econ.st/4eeKfPS 👇
Only two months ago he was cleared in a vast American fraud case. The entrepreneur had been looking forward to his “second life” as a free man econ.st/3MgS9eW Photo: News Licensing
Britain’s oil and gas industry is facing an uncertain future, and a disorderly decline risks making it harder for its workers to retrain econ.st/3WLFENh 👇
This week's issue of @TheEconomist goes big on solar A quick thread on everything that's in the issue, which is one of the most exciting, optimistic covers I can remember us running
In its courtship of business, Sir Keir Starmer’s Labour Party promises stability and growth. But Britain’s bosses have worries—and rightly so econ.st/3WuAg2L
don’t lie, this cover eats.
The popular view about Generation Z is that smartphones have made them miserable and their lives will be grimmer than those of their elders. But in many respects, they are doing rather well econ.st/4aBsrwg
After "the Pinch" comes "the Punch": Britain's boomers are losing for the first time economist.com/britain/2024/0…
On “The Intelligence” @VinjeruM visits Canary Wharf, a glass-and-steel London business district that is transforming itself to fit a work-from-home world econ.st/3TITgZG
Vodafone was once worth more than Apple. What happened? The British telecoms company is trying to slim its way back to health econ.st/3wU5gyb 👇
London’s dockland district now has more homes, more fun and fewer offices. Read how working from home has reshaped Canary Wharf econ.st/3uQODmn 👇
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