High levels of inequality, within and between countries, are making the world more vulnerable to pandemics, making pandemics more economically disruptive and deadly, and making them last longer; ...

It is evolutionarily certain that we will have more outbreaks, more pandemics, and frankly, they could be significantly worse ...

Peer into The Economist’s decision-making processes with Edward Carr, our deputy editor, who explains how we select and design our front cover. Cover Story shares preliminary sketches and documents ...

Speaking to an economist conference a Reserve Bank Monetary Policy Committee member likened the setting of monetary policy in ...

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

The target of today’s strongmen is technocratic administration—what the author calls the “Davos consensus”—which is ...

America used to be the source of more than two-thirds of the aid destined to improve the health of people in sub-Saharan ...

Mass vaccinations have allowed shuttered services to reopen, and services spending is recovering.

Economists have long treated globalisation as a trade-off between openness and national autonomy. In 1933 John Maynard Keynes ...

Whereas many parts of the world that once hosted humming factories gripe about deindustrialisation, New York faces a ...

President Donald Trump has spent much of the year urging the Federal Reserve to deliver aggressive rate cuts in order to boost the economy. But the government shutdown ironically threatens the very ...

Key Takeaways The Federal Reserve is expected to cut interest rates to a range of 3.75%–4%, but officials remain divided and ...