The Olympic flame is still to arrive Beijing, yet with more than four years to go, London is already hard at work on the legacy of the 2012 Olympics
Photographs for TIME by Peter Dench
The Makers of Ahava Skin Care have the exclusive right to harvest the mud and sea salts from the Dead Sea. Photographs by Ilan Mizrahi / WPN for TIME
A megacity tries to unravel the world's worst traffic jams. Photographs by Philip Blenkinsop / NOOR for TIME
Developed for the World Economic Forum by Professor Xavier Sala-i-Martin, the Global Competitiveness Index (GCI) measures the competitiveness of nations using economic statistics and extensive polling of international business leaders.
A country transformed by immigration reaches a new milestone, as a Nigerian émigré is elected mayor of the small town of Portlaoise
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Note: From a list of 14 factors, respondents were asked to select the five most problematic factors for doing business in their country/economy and to rank them between 1(most problematic) and 5. The bars in the figure show the responses weighted according to their ranking.
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