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The nightmare for India’s beleaguered non-banking finance companies (NBFCs) seems to have no end.After the economic slowdown and liquidity c...

Five years after the largest Ebola outbreak in history killed over 11,000 people in west Africa between 2014 and 2016, the virus is back.A n...

On March 15, Germany, France, and Italy joined several other European and Asian countries to suspend the distribution of the AstraZeneca/Uni...

Stripe’s valuation has more than doubled from a year ago to $95 billion, putting the fintech into the upper echelons of the world’s most val...

The wealthiest countries in the world have blocked the latest effort by poor nations to speed access to Covid-19 vaccines and treatments by...

The duties of a central bank are ever expanding: Lender of last resort, financial regulator, macroeconomic manager… affordable housing agenc...

One positive byproduct of the coronavirus pandemic is that it has enabled the Oscars to finally celebrate many of the diverse voices that ar...

Good morning, Quartz readers!Here’s what you need to knowScenes in London captured global protests against gender-based violence. The Metrop...

Two months before the deadly protests that broke out in Senegal, 29-year-old rapper Hakill wrote a song about how fed up his generation was...

One photograph quickly turned iconic: a woman in a black mask, Patsy Stevenson, held down by two male police officers on the floor of the Vi...

The time we spend in meetings is at an all-time high, which is terrible for Zoom fatigue but valuable for creating a picture of company cult...

Coming off the 2019 holiday season, the digital strategy company I help lead had gotten off to a slow start, which is not unusual in our ind...

At a time when gold prices are losing their sheen, a popular Indian jeweller is hoping for a glittering debut on the stock markets.Kalyan Je...

In 2012, Kalyanaraman (TS Kalyanaraman, chairman of Kalyan Jewellers) readied a war chest of Rs90 crore ($14.1 million) to launch a marketin...

In the summer of 2019, Angela Martin decided it was time to stop drinking. “I woke up one morning after having a couple margaritas,” says Ma...

The office happy hour is a survivor. Last year, as the pandemic began, it migrated online swiftly, just days after lockdowns began.I remembe...

Over the past few years, adult beverage companies have been taking a new approach to bringing in customers. Instead of ramping up the alcoho...

A few years ago, I went to a restaurant with some friends, a couple visiting from out of town. I ordered a glass of wine, while my friends g...

For years, David Sedaris drank while he wrote. “I never had to force myself to sit down at a typewriter because I had a drink right there, a...

Hi Quartz Africa readers!Flutterwave became Africa’s latest tech unicorn this week, after announcing that it had raised $170 million in Seri...

“The future for me,” Bob Dylan sang in 2001, “is…a thing of the past.”Presciently, it turns out, because the future—for all of us, not just...

A concise history of the beer industry in Namibia written by history scholar Tycho Van der Hoog begins with the pithy observation by America...

Good morning Quartz readers!For many in the US, this week marks the one-year anniversary of the pandemic. At this point in 2020, the World H...

There persists an old, racist myth that Black women are somehow exceptionally fertile.This is a misconception scientists helped perpetrate,...

In Dec. 2020, then US-president elect Joe Biden announced his goal to vaccinate 100 million people in the US within his first 100 days in of...