Global Finance recently announced the ranking of the world’s richest countries and regions at the beginning of 2024. The top 10 are Luxembourg, Ireland, Singapore, Qatar, Macau Special Administrative Region, Switzerland, United Arab Emirates, Republic of San Marino, Norway and the United States.
The 2023 World’s 20 Richest Countries ranking is released, with Singapore ranking first with a 2023 GDP of US$157,354. Followed by Luxembourg, Qatar, Ireland, and the United Arab Emirates in fifth place. Taiwan lists 12th in this ranking due to its developed consumer electronics industry.
The price of Italian pasta has caused an uproar in Europe recently. The public is dissatisfied that after wheat prices have gradually dropped, the prices of various flour products have continued to rise. Consumers believe that the industry is greedflation, so in Italy, they launched a refusal to buy retail pasta products to express their dissatisfaction and anger.
The World Bank warned in March that the impact of an aging workforce on the global economy continues to intensify. In Japan and South Korea, due to the rapid increase in the proportion of the elderly population and the lack of a young labor force, the economic growth rate has been significantly dragged down. China, the United States, and many European countries are facing the problem of an increasing retirement population, but there is a shortage of a replaceable labor force.
The baguette is a must on the French table. At the end of 2022, it will be listed as an intangible world cultural heritage symbolizing France by the World Heritage Committee. But now it is currently facing a double crisis of changing food culture and rising wheat and energy prices.
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