Discover what the World Economic Forum (WEF) does, its annual Davos meeting, and its significant impact on global economic, social, and environmental issues.

For two centuries, mainstream economics has promised that abstract models and free markets would deliver prosperity, ...

Standing at the intersection where the 14th Five-Year Plan (2021-2025) is approaching its successful conclusion and the 15th ...

In many parts of the world, building a house or farming a field means taking out loans, hiring contractors, and dealing with financial stress. But in Kenya, a time-tested system of mutual aid—where ...

Around the world, views of the economy are related to several factors. Public opinion responds to economic shocks, but we also see that some people’s views change significantly following political ...

Overnight American conservatives have gone from “socialism can’t work, communism can’t work” to “watch out–the Chinese Communist Party is taking over the world!” Yet few seem to see the unresolvable ...

Two figures share a table, but not much companionship, in a Parisian café. The man looks distracted, a pipe gripped in his mouth. The woman, eyes down, shoulders slumped, nurses a glass of moss-green ...

The world is on the verge of Disease X pandemic outbreak. Yes, the sound of it may pass as the stuff that can only be found in science-fiction blockbuster movies or bestseller novels. It also has the ...

The United States imposes three times as many economic sanctions as any other country in the world, according to an analysis by The Washington Post. And while President Donald Trump has said he’d like ...

Trumpian types are unanimous: America needs factories. The president describes how workers have “watched in anguish as foreign leaders have stolen our jobs, foreign cheaters have ransacked our ...

Economists sometimes present their discipline as the queen of the social sciences, a claim staked primarily on a superificial resemblance to physics: It has universal laws! Expressed in numbers! But ...

Economists sometimes present their discipline as the queen of the social sciences, a claim staked primarily on a superificial resemblance to physics: It has universal laws! Expressed in numbers! But ...