All are welcome at the Climate Club
By the end of 2022, the G7 aims to launch an ‘open, cooperative international Climate Club’ to foster coordinated action to achieve the Paris...
Universal Basic Income helps tide over crises
When the COVID-19 pandemic and the resulting recession pushed 120 million people worldwide into extreme poverty in 2020, many countries relied on social-protection measures...
Aiding the Digital Revolution in Global Financial Inclusion
Around the world, high inflation, slow economic growth, and food shortages are hurting the poor the most. Coming on top of the unequal effects...
Makings of a global food crisis
Professor Emeritus of Economics at the University of Munich, is a former president of the Ifo Institute for Economic Research and serves on the...
Death of Davos
Global food prices are soaring. The United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization’s Food Price Index – which covers a basket of basic food commodities...
Ecosystem Restoration is Good for Your Health
Humanity currently faces multiple, interlinked existential crises. The catastrophic consequences of climate change, ecological degradation, and biodiversity loss have cascading knock-on effects on human...
Asia’s Post-COVID Education Catch-Up
Across Asia and the Pacific, students and parents are breathing a sigh of relief as schools reopen and in-person classes gradually resume. But now...
America could become Saudi Arabia of Natural Gas
With images of Russian aggression and war crimes in Ukraine continuing to dominate the media in Europe and around the world, Germany has pledged...
Going Nuclear Against Rising Cancer Cases
Advances in cancer care have yielded enormous benefits and saved millions of lives. Between 2000 and 2015, high-income countries cut cancer patients’ probability of...
Where Is Dubai Leading Us?
‘Connecting minds, creating the future’, the slogan of World Expo 2020, is everywhere in this city. The ongoing event, which opened a year late...
