Martijn Konings is Professor of Political Economy and Social Theory at the University of Sydney and the author, most recently ...

Water scarcity, extreme heatwaves, and desertification are increasingly shaping everyday life in the Middle East and North ...

Timothy Snyder sees growing signs that America’s president seeks to turn the US military into a palace guard.

The rich world’s commitment to official development assistance (ODA) is fading fast. Aid budgets are flatlining ...

This month’s Conference on Financing for Development in Seville, Spain, seeks to change that by amplifying the voices of ...

Rana Mitter traces the country’s emergence as a world power to the visionary leaders who pushed for greater openness.

Shang-Jin Wei identifies areas where inter-regional cooperation can make up for America’s abdication of leadership.

Fakim, María Fernanda Espinosa and Shamshad Akhtar urge world leaders to overhaul a system that perpetuates poverty and ...

If US President Donald Trump is to be believed, America’s strikes on three Iranian nuclear sites have delivered a swift and ...

Jim O'Neill thinks the elite grouping no longer serves a useful purpose, at least as it is currently constituted.

Dambisa Moyo considers the implications of higher borrowing costs, lower exports, and shrinking foreign-exchange reserves.

The twin shocks of the Israeli-US attack on Iran and Donald Trump’s tariff war come as global GDP growth continues to slow ...