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Before the Taliban seized power in August 2021, the illicit trade in opium, a gum produced from poppies, helped pay for their insurgency. The mullahs encouraged farmers to plant poppies and taxed the trade. But drugs are deemed haram (prohibited) under Islamic law. Shortly after taking power the Taliban's supreme leader, Hibatullah Akhundzada, banned narcotics. And stunning recent evidence from across the Country's opium belt in the south and east suggests he meant it. According to satellite imagery from Alcis, a British firm, poppy cultivation in the southern province of Helmand, where most of the crop is groWn, fell from over 120,000 hectares in April 2022 to less than 1,oo0 hectares a year later. Anti-poppy units are patrolling the province, meting out the treatment Mr Mohammad received. The results in Nangarhar province, another big producer, are similar. Only 865 hectares are under poppies now, compared with over 7,000 hectares in 2022. It will be harder to eli...

In recent years, there has been a precipitous drop in the number of cases making it to court and this has suggested fresh failures in the criminal justice system. In the year to March 2016 there were 3,910 charges for rape; in the year to March 2022 there were 2,223.  It is not clear why charges have fallen so far. Some reckon that changes to the way the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) decides whether or not to bring a case to court have played a part. Prosecutors have also become increasingly likely to ask to see everything on a complainant's phone, "making an already distressing process feel even more intrusive", according to one government report. Reports of rape have increased exponentially, perhaps because the #MeToo movement has changed people's understanding of it: police recorded 69,905 cases of rape in the year to March 2022 compared with 36,334 sİx years earlier. Overstretched officers seem less likely to conduct thorough investigations. A big backlog of cas...

The U.S. and China represent the “greatest dangers to peace right now” if their animosities escalate to a military confrontation, Kissinger said in  an interview  with  The Economist  published Wednesday. The two countries are heading toward a major confrontation, he said, as both nations have “convinced themselves that the other represents a strategic danger.” Tensions over Taiwan are likely to be a major flashpoint for future conflict, as President Joe Biden has signaled the U.S.  would aid the island nation  if China invades to reconquer what it considers a breakaway state. But much like with nuclear weapons during the Cold War, the world is now perfecting a new technology—A.I.—that may be too dangerous to even consider deploying militarily. “[China and America] are two powers of the type where, historically, a military confrontation was inevitable. But this is not a normal circumstance, because of mutually assured destruction and artificial ...

QUESTION CAN THE PRICE OF ELECTRICITY (POWER)  BECOME NEGATIVE? YES IT CAN Electrical industry had had to regularly deal with negative pricing as the proliferation of renewable energy has grown. With wind and solar energy present, there is more and more energy. The market for electricity occasionally becomes oversupplied dipping prices into negative. Remember, as supply of electricity outweighs demand, price go negative,  owners of traditional energy production plants (coal or gas plants) have to turn off production. In  this case, price is a signal to owners that their energy isn't needed, leading to plant shutdown.

QUESTION AND ANSWER ✓ Firstly, what is currency devaluation? Currency devaluation involves taking measures to strategically lower purchasing power of a nation's own currency or we can say Devaluation is the decision to reduce the value of a currency in a fixed exchange rate thereby making domestic resident find imports and foreign travel more expensive while domestic export more cheaper. ✓ From the question asked "does devaluation really help the economy" We can say that it has its own advantage and disadvantage Countries pursue this strategy "currency devaluation" to gain competitive edge in global trade and reduce sovereign debt burdens. However, it doesn't happen without some negative consequence which will be treated below shortly. Note that the government issuing the currency decides to devalue the currency unlike depreciation, it is not the result of non-governmental activities. A country may choose to devalue it's currency in other to combat trade...

✓ Understanding Accelerator Theory The accelerator theory was conceived by Thomas Nixon Carver and Albert Aftalion, among others, before Keynesian economics, but it came into public knowledge as the Keynesian theory began to dominate the field of economics in the 20th century.  ✓ The accelerator theory is an economic postulation whereby investment expenditure increases when either demand or income increases. The theory also suggests that when there is excess demand, companies can either decrease demand by raising prices or increase investment to meet the level of demand. The accelerator theory posits that companies typically choose to increase production, thereby increasing profits, to meet their fixed capital to output ratio. ✓ Fixed capital to output ratio states that if one (1) machine was needed to produce a hundred (100) units and demand rose to two hundred (200) units, then investment in another machine would be needed to meet this increase in demand. From a macro-policy poin...

✓ WHAT IS DEFLATION? Deflation is a condition of economies, it prompts a situation where the supply of money is fixed and does not grow as quickly as population and the economy. When this happens the available amount of hard currency per person falls, thereby making money more scarce and consequently the purchasing power of each unit of currency increases. OR We can say deflation is a decrease in the general price level of goods and services. Deflation occurs when the inflation rate falls below 0% (a negative inflation rate). Inflation reduces the value of currency over time, but sudden deflation increases it. This allows more goods and services to be bought than before with the same amount of currency. Deflation is distinct from disinflation, a slow-down in the inflation rate, i.e. when inflation declines to a lower rate but is still positive. STAY TUNED FOR MORE UPDATES