The COVID-19 pandemic upended how, when and where people work. Today, millions of employees across the US continue to work from home, and the availability of office space is at all-time highs in many cities. What will the future of work look like? Some companies believe suburban co-working holds the key. Kyoko Gasha has more from New York.

#OfficeSpaces #Coworking #SharedOffices

The World Bank is planning to free up around 500 million dollars in frozen aid for Afghanistan's ailing healthcare sector. The money will help address medicine and staffing shortages in hospitals, where workers are struggling to cope with people suffering from malnutrition and rising COVID-19 infections. Torek Farhadi joined us from Geneva. He's a former economic adviser for the I-M-F, the World Bank and the U-N. He was also a former adviser for the Afghan government.

#Afghanistan #HealthCrisis #WorldBankAid

Turkey's economy continues to fire on all cylinders. Its GDP grew 7.4 percent in the third quarter, compared to the same period last year, as demand for Turkish goods and services boomed at home and abroad. Economists expect this momentum to carry through to the end of the year, which would make Turkey the fastest growing major economy in the world. Erhan Aslanoglu joined us from Istanbul. He's an economics professor at Piri Reis University.

#TurkishEconomy #TurkeyGDP #TurkeyExport

- India's economy grows 8.4% in July-to-September quarter

- Eurozone inflation hits record high of 4.9% in November

- EasyJet posts full-year loss of $1.1B due to pandemic

#IndianEconomy #EurozoneInflation #EasyJet

- Gazprom reports record net profit of $7.8B in Q3

- Property developer Fantasia halts share trading

- Nissan to spend $17.6B on electrification push

#Gazprom #Fantasia #Nissan

For many people, NFTs, or non-fungible tokens, are a hard concept to understand. Collins Dictionary is here to help, adding the abbreviation to its books, AND crowning it Word of the Year for 2021. It's a reflection of the term's growing cultural and commercial popularity over the past 12 months.

#CollinsDictionary #NFT #NonFungibleToken

Americans have celebrated Thanksgiving, but the festivities are taking place against a backdrop of a shortage of some goods and higher prices across the board. Inflation is running at more than 6 percent, the highest rate in three decades.

#USBusinesses #ThanksgivingShopping #BlackFriday

Medicines in Lebanon have suddenly increased in price as the government has largely removed a long-standing subsidy. With the UN estimating almost 80 percent of the population lives below the poverty line, it means many people can't afford the treatment they need. Imogen Kimber reports from Beirut.

#Lebanon #MedicineShortage #DrugShortage

The United Arab Emirates has pledged to invest 10 billion dollars in the Turkish economy as the two countries look to boost economic co-operation. The development follows a meeting between Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan and Abu Dhabi Crown Prince Mohamed bin Zayed Al Nahyan in Ankara this week. Taha Meli Arvas was with us. He is is an adjunct professor of finance at Bogazici University here in Istanbul.

#Turkey #UAE #TurkeyUAETies

Fear is gripping global markets following the discovery of a new COVID-19 variant in South Africa. Health officials are still learning about the new strain, but early indications show it might be the fastest-spreading variant yet, and current vaccines could be less effective against it. For more, Doctor Muhammad Munir joined us. He's a virologist at Lancaster University in the UK.

#Omicron #CovidVariant #Cronavirus