How FIFA turned the World Cup into a giant money-making machine

Billions of dollars are streaming into the Swiss-based organisation from broadcasting rights, advertising revenue, and ticket and hospitality sales, but have the fans been left high and dry?

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Rouhani’s Economic Record

[caption id="attachment_55253536" align="aligncenter" width="4416"] Iranians crowd the Emam Zadeh Davod bazaar, some 25 kilometers west of the capital Tehran, on September 19, 2010. AFP PHOTO/ATTA…

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Digital Globalization and Protection

[caption id="attachment_55253470" align="aligncenter" width="5475"] California (Silicon Valley) connected to night lights of US west coast as sun rises.Globe maps courtesy of NASA: (Getty Images)[…

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A New Deal in Asia

[caption id="attachment_55253203" align="aligncenter" width="3681"] A truck driver walks past a shipping container being moved at the Yangshan Deep Water Port, part of China (Shanghai) Pilot Free…

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The Horn of Africa's Qat-22

[caption id="attachment_55253190" align="aligncenter" width="3000"] A Somali man chews khat in Uithoorn on January 12, 2012. The Dutch government on January 10 banned the use of khat, a leaf native…

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