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• Affairs / Innovation

  Field trip

  

  Issue 24

  The news is full of huge stimulus packages but some smaller initiatives have gone beneath the radar. In Japan, a scheme to encourage jobless young citizens to move from town to work the land could be a global template for…

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  Business / Innovation

  Business Briefing

  

  Issue 43

  An indian energy start-up, an African hotel group and a Turkish taxi designer, plus other companies making waves this month.

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  Edits / Innovation

  Inventory no. 61

  

  Issue 61

  This month, the natural world brings wood, leather and rare essences to the fore and creates unexpected combinations with chocolate-and-caramel tea and a vodka that starts life with a cow.

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  Design / Innovation

  Back in your box

  

  Issue 26

  How do you make voting simpler, appealing and important? It’s a challenge Norway has tried to solve. The solution is a vote winner.

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• Business / Innovation

  Peace and prosperity

  

  Issue 20

  Arbil in Iraqi Kurdistan has escaped the worst of the war raging across the rest of the country. Its new airport, coupled with burgeoning trade, offer hope for this one corner of a ravaged nation.

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  Design / Innovation

  Cool Operator

  

  Issue 4

  Ten years ago, Australian Shane Williams invented a vest to cool down football players and improve their performance on the field. Today his simple invention is helping commandos in sun-baked Iraq, burn victims, heart…

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  Affairs / Innovation

  Future lab

  

  Issue 59

  Global leaders may be lacking in ambition but that hasn’t stopped us doing the heavy lifting for them. Monocle presents 10 grand projects that would make a big difference.

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  Affairs / Innovation

  Time to open wide

  

  Issue 60

  OK, so the Olympics were a soft-power triumph for the UK. But now what? Over the following pages we explore how Britain can harness that post-games optimism and meet some of the people who can help the country do just that…

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• Edits / Innovation

  Garfish and friends

  

  Issue 16

  Jacob Jensen’s products for Bang & Olufsen made design history in the 1960s and 1970s, but his design philosophy is perhaps more relevant today than ever. For an imaginary final lunch he chooses the “incredibly well-desi…

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  Affairs / Innovation

  Asia briefing

  

  Issue 20

  Urban farming in Japan, Korea's mission to put its cuisine on the map, and farewell to to Cambodia's "bamboo" railways.

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  Business / Innovation

  Business briefing

  

  Issue 58

  A firm that makes exoskeletons for people with paralysis, a Filipino fast-food chain and other news of enterprising endeavours.

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  Business / Innovation

  All in it together

  

  Issue 61

  As companies around the world collapse into administration it would seem that the frenzied pursuit of profit in these straitened times can have an unfortunate side effect: bankruptcy. But the global resurgence of co-oper…

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