“Poverty,” Aristotle famously observed, “is the parent of revolution and crime.” History has repeatedly proven the point: inequality often fuels political and social instability, giving...
Conspiracy theorists and populists who have long attacked the World Economic Forum and the globalised elite who meet annually in Davos will be rubbing their...
From 1 December, the United States will take over the presidency of the Group of Twenty (G20) at a time when the platform is under...
A hole in the Antarctic ozone layer caused in part by man-made chlorofluorocarbons was confirmed in the mid-1980s with the help of scientists from the...
At the session of the UN Human Rights Council on 7 July, the mandate of the independent expert on protection against violence and discrimination based...
Scientists in South Africa were on the verge of developing an HIV vaccine that would have suppressed one of the deadliest epidemics, but at a...
Back in 1999, when the euro was introduced, the lack of flexibility in Europe’s labor market was widely expected to make responding to shocks more...
