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Each year, Mexicans working abroad send billions of dollars back to their home country. In 2019, these remittances, including personal tra...

In 2015, Greece, Thailand, Israel, and the UK were equally unequal. That is, all four countries had the same Gini coefficient, a common meas...

The biggest acquisition of 2020 has put a spotlight on the business of collecting data about money. How much is that information worth?This...

Ethiopia’s political uncertainty may not end even after the defeat of Tigray People Liberation Front (TPLF) by federal forces.Late last mont...

In lieu of any other successful containment and mitigation strategies for the pandemic, Covid-19 vaccines have become the de-facto final hop...

Early into the pandemic, drug makers around the world began a race to deliver a safe and effective coronavirus vaccine. On March 16, the fir...

The Covid-19 crisis hits men and women workers differently. It’s a fact we’ve known for a while, attested to by several studies organization...

As a physician and epidemiologist with the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, T. Stephen Jones spent his career fighting major t...

I recently returned to the office for the first time in more than two months. Our receptionist Zubia commented on my sneakers (the Asics Tok...

The pandemic came as an unexpected blow to the arts. Cinemas were shut down, music gigs went online, and culture spaces had to reinvent how...

As countries across the world sign up for various Covid-19 vaccines, India is waiting and watching.The Indian government has so far not comm...

At a time when the Covid-19 pandemic was wreaking havoc in India, foreign investors were pumping money into the country at a pace faster tha...

Seemingly everyone in Washington, DC wants to scrap Section 230, a snippet of the 1996 Communications Decency Act originally designed to hel...

For the second year in a row, China has landed an ambitious robotic explorer on the moon.This mission, called Chang’e 5, will make the first...

If president-elect Joe Biden wants to make good on his promise to decarbonize the US electric grid by 2035, he’s going to have to deal with...

John Mulaney has reached a level of success as a comedian where he doesn’t really need to hold down a 9-to-5 job. But the Covid-19 pandemic...

These are excerpts from “Nigeria and the Nation-State: Rethinking diplomacy with the postcolonial world“, by John Campbell, former US ambass...

Even with offices around the world shut due to Covid-19, business has carried on, though not without the occasional technological hiccup.Vid...

President-elect Joe Biden promised to forgive at least some student debt during his campaign, and he now supports immediately canceling $10,...

The digital yuan is the most advanced of all current central bank digital currencies projects worldwide. Over 2 billion digital yuan has bee...

Last March, Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez told an Instagram Live chat that “there’s scientific consensus that the lives of children are goin...

On Dec. 2, the UK became the first country to authorise a Covid-19 vaccine for use. The Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine will be available in the cou...

Now that the UK will begin rolling out Pfizer’s Covid-19 vaccine, Indians are wondering about their chances of getting one, too. But with th...

With a growing number of Western Countries including the US, UK and the European Union tightening their immigration and visa polices, citize...

As African governments crack down on protestors and opposition leaders in countries such as Nigeria and Uganda, it is emerging that state se...