By Amadou Hott and Mark Malloch-BrownNEW YORK — Africa bears virtually no responsibility for the greenhouse-gas emissions driving the climate crisis. It is not responsible for the conflicts or supply-chain disruptions that have driven global inflation.

By Ishac Diwan and Philippe Le HouérouPARIS — The sovereign-debt crisis was high on the agenda at this year’s Spring Meetings of the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund (IMF), with all eyes on China, the biggest creditor to the developing world, and the Internatio

By Manuel Muñiz and Samir SaranMADRID/NEW DELHI — Future historians may well mark the second half of March 2023 as the moment when the era of artificial intelligence truly began.

By Nate D.F. Allen and Nanjira Sambuli WASHINGTON, DC/NAIROBI — Last year, Google’s Equiano undersea cable began conveying terabytes of data per second to and from African shores.

By Olivia White and Jonathan Woetzel SAN FRANCISCO — Global trade still conjures images of giant container ships. But our world has changed. The transport of physical goods across borders is no longer the only, or even the primary, driving force behind global integration.

By Ralph Gonsalves, Fiame Naomi Mata’afa, and Wavel RamkalawanKINGSTOWN/APIA/VICTORIA — It is too early to tell whether all the talk about reforming development finance at this year’s International Monetary Fund (IMF) and World Bank Spring Meetings will translate into meaningful

By Olivia White and Mekala KrishnanSAN FRANCISCO — The debate about how to achieve climate goals, most notably, the transition to net-zero emissions of greenhouse gases, has fuelled speculation that the world will deglobalise.

By Sophia Kalantzakos and Kunda DixitABU DHABI — In our collective imagination, the Himalayas, the roof of the world, are an archetype: glistening white, distant, even otherworldly.

By Ambroise Fayolle and Henk OvinkLUXEMBOURG — Together with air, water is arguably the planet’s most important natural resource.