But the most telling results will come from gubernatorial elections in New Jersey and Virginia, two states that voted ...

This makes possible a virtuous circle. The more other countries invest cost-effectively in fossil-fuel-free growth, the better it is for Chinese industry. The success of the world’s second biggest ...

Those 4.9bn tonnes of coal represented more than half the world’s total consumption. They also represented a record level of Chinese consumption. If an economy is heavily electrified, economic growth ...

The most content corners of the world remain familiar ones. More than 90% of people in Denmark said they felt enjoyment—the ...

Heat-related deaths now make up more than 3% of mortalities in 26 countries, mostly in Africa and the Middle East. In ...

The security business spans everything from pudgy rent-a-cops in shopping centres and armed guards hired by companies in ...

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CALLING, gaslighting, stonewalling, over-generalising: talks between China and America bear the hallmarks of a toxically dysfunctional relationship. For months, negotiations have veered between ...

The problem is, those costs, which include aggravating climate change, are spread across the entire world’s population, ...

But what exactly is this prize for which China must strive? TFP is best defined by what it is not. Some economic growth comes ...

The stockmarket is not the economy, as the old investing cliché goes. That is obvious enough to anyone paying attention in America this year. President Donald Trump’s tariff fervour has dented growth, ...

THE JINGXI hotel will contain all the intrigue, as usual. From October 20th to 23rd some 370 of the Communist Party’s top officials will congregate in Beijing to map out the country’s economic course ...