The World Ahead 2023: five stories to watch out for

What stories should you be following in 2023? From India becoming the world’s most populous country, to an illegal drug that might be approved as a medicine, The Economist offers its annual look at the year ahead.





00:00 - The World Ahead 2023

00:35 - India's population potential

04:24 - Psychedelic medicines

08:01 - Japan’s markets mayhem?

12:37 - Repairing the world

15:38 - The coronation's colonial concerns





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Read Tom Standage’s editor’s note on The World Ahead 2023: https://econ.st/3WM5wY3



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Has China reached the peak of its powers? https://econ.st/3G3fgY8



India is continuing on its path to majoritarian chauvinism: https://econ.st/3jjZKOw



Will China’s economy ever overtake America’s in size? https://econ.st/3v0p0Mn



The Bank of Japan shocks investors: https://econ.st/3VkSbV8



Japan’s bond-market peg could snap: https://econ.st/3WiaVpT



Repairing clothes is becoming more fashionable: https://econ.st/3YJfCud



Ketamine, psilocybin and MDMA are coming to the medicine cabinet: https://econ.st/3W9G7aN



More American clinics are offering ketamine to treat depression: https://econ.st/3G3cBO3



Sensible policy on psychedelic drugs is growing more common: https://econ.st/3jeiak2



Psychedelic therapy shows great promise. More states should legalise it: https://econ.st/3V9pfj0



King Charles III’s coronation is a real marketing opportunity: https://econ.st/3BMcAf1