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A weak banking system has come back to haunt India’s economy during the pandemic.The country’s recovery has been slow and elusive in the wak...

The biggest issue going into 2021 for African economies, without a doubt, will be sovereign debt.We began 2020 with the usual excited foreca...

The European economy will likely contract by 7% this year—its largest dip since World War II. That’s due to months of lockdowns imposed by g...

In 1962, US president John F. Kennedy’s words in a Texas college football stadium set America on a course for the moon. “We choose to go to...

Global leaders took to social media and the airwaves on New Year’s Eve to wish their citizens a brighter future. Many acknowledged the sacri...

A story playing out in Canada this week would make the writers behind HBO’s Veep envious.The tale revolves around Ontario’s finance minister...

On Dec. 29, the US Department of Agriculture published its dietary guidelines for 2020 through 2025, as it does every five years. Its goal i...

It’s not often that a giant public company calls a US senator a sore loser on social media. So it drew a lot of notice when Walmart, the lar...

I am a sucker for the idea of New Year’s. I love new beginnings and any opportunity to take on a fresh set of goals. Even though catastrophe...

2020 was not a good year. Unfortunately, there’s no guarantee the next one will be better. Even as the introduction of new coronavirus vacci...

Jan. 1, 2021 will be a historic day for free trade agreements—but not only because it’s the day the UK and the EU are finally breaking up.Wh...

There’s no denying that 2020 has been a difficult year. From a global pandemic to an economic downturn to the racial justice movement, we’ve...

A year ago, Li Wenliang, an ophthalmologist in the Chinese city of Wuhan, gave one of the world’s first warnings about Covid-19. Then police...

The private capital fueling the space race in the US still hasn’t produced a competitor to pressure SpaceX, whose primary rival may be China...

About a year before Beijing suspended Ant Group’s monster IPO, the Communist Party’s official mouthpiece broadcast a stark message to Jack M...

Stuck indoors, urban Indians found new ways to spend money.Some used their extra savings from not having to commute to work to upgrade their...

It’s been yet another record-breaking holiday season for Amazon, the company says. Having only grown stronger as Covid-19 drives a surge in...

Life under lockdown is making all of us more eccentric. We’re forgetting how to socialize, staving off boredom with gardening and tie-dye, a...

On Dec. 30, Sinopharm—China’s state-owned drug company, also known as the China National Pharmaceutical Group—announced promising phase 3 cl...

If you’ve ever wanted to drill for oil in the Alaskan Arctic, this week could be your last, best chance: Bidding closes on Dec. 31 for a mil...

For years, electricity customers had two options to go solar in their neighborhood: Install their own solar panels or purchase solar off the...

European leaders reached a compromise with China on an investment agreement nearly a decade in the making, two days before the new year—the...

The Girl Scouts and the Boy Scouts are squaring off once again in their ongoing recruitment war. Last week, lawyers for the Girl Scouts file...

There’s a popular meme on social media that goes something like this: Half of Delhi is in Goa, and the other half is at Sunder Nursery. It h...

On Jan. 1, Raghav Sikka made a resolution that he would visit a new place in each month of 2020. Three months later, India went into a compl...