{"id":124321,"date":"2023-11-02T17:31:59","date_gmt":"2023-11-02T21:31:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=124321"},"modified":"2023-11-02T18:35:29","modified_gmt":"2023-11-02T22:35:29","slug":"bloomberg-businessweek-brace-for-elections-40-countries-are-voting-in-2024","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=124321","title":{"rendered":"(Bloomberg Businessweek) Brace for Elections: 40 Countries Are Voting in 2024"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The world economy is lumbering from one shock to another as two brutal wars, stubborn inflation and high borrowing costs pockmark the post-pandemic recovery. The next source of turbulence in the polycrisis era: a packed 2024 election calendar.<\/p>\n<p>Starting with Taiwan in January and running through the US presidential election in November, the year will bring 40 national elections\u2014a busy lineup even in calmer political times. Bloomberg Economics calculates that voters in countries representing 41% of the world\u2019s population and 42% of its gross domestic product have a chance to elect new leaders next year.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/articles\/2023-11-01\/brace-for-elections-40-countries-are-voting-in-2024\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Brace for elections: 40 countries are voting in 2024 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/pHjTaaUgLQ\">https:\/\/t.co\/pHjTaaUgLQ<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/mtfQjs83nJ\">pic.twitter.com\/mtfQjs83nJ<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Bloomberg UK (@BloombergUK) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BloombergUK\/status\/1719660340437246424?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">November 1, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The world economy is lumbering from one shock to another as two brutal wars, stubborn inflation and high borrowing costs pockmark the post-pandemic recovery. The next source of turbulence in the polycrisis era: a packed 2024 election calendar. Starting with<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=124321\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[119,151],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-124321","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-globalization","category-politics-in-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/124321","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=124321"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/124321\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":124324,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/124321\/revisions\/124324"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=124321"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=124321"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=124321"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}