Robert Guest

London

Deputy Editor at The Economist

Deputy Editor, @TheEconomist; author, Borderless Economics and The Shackled Continent

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Outside Front Cover: High‐Throughput Computational Screening of Small Molecular Crystals for Sustainable Piezoelectric Materials

2 months ago | onlinelibrary.wiley.com | Shubham Vishnoi |Geetu Kumari |Robert Guest |Pierre-Andre Cazade

Robert Guest Department of Chemical Sciences, Bernal Institute, University of Limerick, V94 T9PX, Ireland SSPC, The Science Foundation Ireland Research Centre for Pharmaceuticals, University of Limerick, V94 T9PX, IrelandSearch for more papers by this author
The Coming Border Crackdown

Jan 19, 2025 | edgp.gazetaprawna.pl | Robert Guest

Wydanie z dnia: poniedziałek, 20. styczeń 2025»Dziennik Gazeta Prawna Special Edition World Economic Forum Davos 2025SPECIAL EDITION WORLD ECONOMIC FORUM DAVOS 2025America will not be the only country trying to curb migration in 2025. For rich countries, a smart immigration policy will involve striking a balance. Voters everywhere are fed up. In all the big countries that held elections in 2024, the incumbent party lost seats. Complaints varied, but two stand out.
Nadchodzą restrykcje  na granicach. To polityczne konsekwencje rosnącej migracji

Dec 30, 2024 | gazetaprawna.pl | Robert Guest

Na całym świecie wyborcy mają dość. We wszystkich dużych krajach, w których w 2024 r. odbyły się wybory, partie rządzące straciły mandaty. Różne stawiano im zarzuty, ale dwa wszędzie wysuwały się na czoło. Po pierwsze – wzrost cen, częściowo będący skutkiem szczodrości z czasów pandemii. Po drugie – wzrost migracji, spowodowany również złagodzeniem kontroli granicznych po ustąpieniu pandemii COVID-19.
The coming border crackdown

Nov 20, 2024 | economist.com | Robert Guest

By Robert Guest, Deputy editor, The EconomistVoters everywhere are fed up. In all the big countries that held elections in 2024, the incumbent party lost seats. Complaints varied, but two stand out. One was high prices (partly a consequence of pandemic-era largesse). The other was migration, which surged after covid-19 border controls were eased.
The woman who will lead Chile’s counter-revolution

Sep 24, 2024 | economist.com | Kinley Salmon |Robert Guest

The graffiti are still visible. Walls shout: “Death to the police!” Bus shelters demand: “No more private pensions!” Yet the occasionally violent social upheaval that rocked Chile from 2019 to 2022 is past. And the radical left-wing movement it propelled to power is now unpopular, having discovered that governing is harder than protesting.
Trans-Saharan Slave Trade Is Another Ugly Side Of Coup In Niger

Aug 12, 2023 | insidebusiness.ng | Kinley Salmon |Robert Guest

Agadez is lawless in other ways, too, as Mimi well understands. She is a woman in her 20s from Nigeria, the vast country south of Niger. Three years ago she and her three sisters were trafficked into sexual slavery. Now Mimi is a whistleblower in Agadez. The city was for centuries a hub of the caravan trade across the Sahara; recently it has become better known as a staging post for African migrants heading for Europe.