The gap between rich and poor nations is growing even wider as actions agreed to by many countries last year, including ...

Migration flows into the world’s rich economies are slowing down, according to an OECD report published on Monday. Although overall numbers remain historically high, permanent migration to OECD ...

Looming above thick mist blanketing the sea on a winter’s afternoon, the museum encapsulates the country that paid for it: sophisticated and so loaded that money is no object. Norwegian oil has built ...

Year after year, the small, densely forested west African nation of Liberia is facing ever more extreme impacts of the climate crisis, including floods and droughts that wreak havoc for farmers and ...

A specter is haunting Europe—the specter of aging. The worst consequences of this demographic shift, per the World Bank, are economic. Soon the shrinking working population in the U.S., Canada, or ...

UN climate conferences are primarily announcement summits. For 30 years, industrialized countries, which are primarily responsible for the climate crisis, have been promising that they will reduce ...

Although Global South countries hold roughly 70% of transition minerals reserves, the majority of the investments in renewable energy are concentrated in the Global North (50%) and China (29%) — with ...

Table 1.2 of Chapter 1 of the WEO makes one thing abundantly clear. When the IMF talks about the need for investors to “increase the share of their portfolios in US assets for many years” (p.16) in ...

The pandemic didn’t just pull deaths forward in time. In most rich nations, Covid-19 left a lasting increase in mortality that has yet to fully unwind, according to an analysis of data from 34 ...