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Scale-ups prioritised in UK productivity drive

Government emphasis on high growth enterprises has intensified, but results are mixed




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Start-ups advance to test overseas markets

The city exports more goods and services per job than any other in Britain




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So Long, My Son is an intricately tragic drama set in China’s one-child era

Wang Xiaoshuai’s wonderfully acted film is an epic of love and loss




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The Kingmaker — up close with Imelda Marcos, spendthrift superdiva

Lauren Greenfield’s documentary about the Philippines’ former First Lady is comic as well as horrific




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Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker is fun and fantastic (in parts)

There’s swashbuckling and explosions, but Adam Driver is the real star of the ninth and final film in the Skywalker saga




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Spies in Disguise — Will Smith and Tom Holland save the planet, if not the movie

Fun though it may be, this collection of out-takes is never quite the sum of its parts




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From Psycho to Parasite: why the basement is cinema’s scariest location

Ever since I was knee-high to Nosferatu, I have loved steps and stairs on screen




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Tech losers can win longer term

Uber cuts 3,700 staff, Libra’s first CEO, Microsoft Surface surfeit




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NHS tracing app in question as experts assess Google-Apple model

Swiss firm hired to test mainstream software despite launch of go-it-alone system




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FT’s legal hackathon races to ease pandemic pressures

Projects under way range from more efficient legal aid to facilitating esignatures




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UK starts to build second contact tracing app

NHS team is told to build alternative on system being developed by Apple and Google




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Mini-courses pave the way to a full MBA

Online learning modules boost students’ academic confidence and business knowhow




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Coursera offers help to universities hit by coronavirus

Online learning group grants free access to teaching platform for institutions in lockdown




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The executive education courses tackling burnout

Growing understanding of the costs and fading stigma is driving demand 




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Guaraní: both Paraguay’s secret weapon and its glue

Widely spoken indigenous vernacular has problems around official adoption and online presence




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Guaidó representative recognised at fractious OAS

Organization of American States voted to accept Venezuela’s US-backed alternative regime




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Overseas earnings trigger Trump tussle with Central America

White House threatens to use remittances from US as leverage in migration dispute




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Latin America faces a second ‘lost decade’

From Chile to Bolivia, revolts against leaders from left and right have root causes in stagnant growth and weak investment




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The death of Chile’s pension promise

Protesters urge overhaul of system once lauded as the ‘Mercedes-Benz’ of retirement provision




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Bolsonaro and López Obrador draw fire for coronavirus response

Brazil and Mexico leaders ignore medical advice while Latin America begins crackdown




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Coronavirus set to push 29m Latin Americans into poverty

Social damage could take 2 decades to repair, warns top UN official




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Neiman Marcus files second big US retail bankruptcy of lockdown

Upscale US department store follows J Crew as latest debt-burdened chain felled by pandemic




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UK regulators delay two-thirds of new measures in response to Covid-19

Rules concerning Brexit preparations prioritised over tougher environmental standards




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Indonesia looks to set up sovereign wealth fund

Initiative would be modelled on Singapore’s Temasek with focus on start-ups




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Lebanese protests have given way to a debt crisis

The country’s banking system is in hock to an insolvent state




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Saudi Aramco raises $25.6bn in world’s biggest IPO

State-owned oil company’s $1.7tn valuation falls short of kingdom’s ambitions




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Dubai raises public spending to ward off slowdown

Forecast of 3.2 per cent growth in 2020 would be improvement on 2.1 per cent in 2019




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Lebanese banks shed bonds in ‘prisoner’s dilemma’

$1.2bn eurobond maturing in March falls sharply as local lenders cash out




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Egypt seeks investors for military-run companies

Move designed to assuage fears over army’s growing role in the economy




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Lebanon’s sovereign default leaves creditors facing big losses

London-based Ashmore bet heavily on the country’s short-term debt




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Lebanese buy up property as government defaults

Investors seeking safe haven for cash are driving a real estate boom




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Cash-rich Gulf funds hunt for bargains as asset prices plunge

Saudi Arabia’s PIF has snapped up stakes in a cruise operator, oil groups and a football club




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Iberdrola chief praises Bolsonaro after Neoenergia IPO

Ignacio Galán says energy distributor’s listing highlights president’s market-friendly policies




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Brazil’s pension reform bill set for crucial first vote

Proposal successfully passes committee stages on the way to plenary vote




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Farmers’ protests pose challenge to Argentina’s new president

Alberto Fernández seeks to bolster state coffers with tax raid on country’s most powerful industry




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Saudi Arabia launches oil price war after Russia deal collapse

Kingdom to raise crude production and offer deep discounts just as coronavirus hits demand




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Saudi Arabia’s PIF takes 8.2% stake in cruise operator Carnival 

Rare sign of investor confidence in industry battered by coronavirus pandemic




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NMC administrators seek to assure UAE medical staff

Hospitals run by the former FTSE 100 company are tackling the coronavirus outbreak




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Private equity and bailouts, the sequel

Buyout groups wants a slice of the bailout and with thousands of jobs at risk, they’re hard to turn down




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Coronavirus: Government support for small businesses — Your questions answered

Claer Barrett wants to hear readers’ experiences of accessing business interruption loans




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Coronavirus claims thousands of UK businesses 

At least 21,000 more companies failed in March compared with the year before 




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Live Q&A: ‘Bounce back loans’ for small businesses

Your chance to grill FT experts on the government’s rescue measures for small businesses




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Small businesses locked out of government grant scheme

English companies with shared offices excluded from coronavirus rescue package




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Why only a reverse bail-in can save the economy now

In 2008, it was decided an over-leveraged banking system must be bailed in by the private sector. Post lock-down the exact opposite is true.




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UK pledges extra funds for businesses that share office space

Government to provide £617m to plug gaps in rescue package based on business rates system




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Mr Klein — Joseph Losey’s lost classic re-emerges

Alain Delon stars in this existential thriller, set in Nazi-occupied Paris




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Standards in  jails run by Carillion criticised

GFSL said liquidated company’s services were ‘unacceptable’




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Royal Mail seeks court order to block walkout

Postal group says strike ballot had ‘irregularities’ making it ‘null and void’




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AI sensors keep refineries ticking along

Advanced equipment can detect problems 75 days before they occur




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Troubled contractor Interserve axes role of chief executive

Debbie White to step down as group strengthens leadership of its three divisions