By Kaushik BasuITHACA — The Amazon rainforest has been burning for weeks.

By Stefaan G. VerhulstNEW YORK — After Hurricane Katrina struck New Orleans in 2005, the direct-mail marketing company Valassis shared its database with emergency agencies and volunteers to help improve aid delivery.

By Michael SpenceMILAN — This month, the Business Roundtable, a group comprising the CEOs of America’s largest and most powerful corporations, formally abandoned the view that maximising shareholder value should be a company’s primary objective.

By Anna Stansbury and Lawrence H. Summers CAMBRIDGE — The world’s central bankers and the scholars who follow them are having their annual moment of reflection in Jackson Hole, Wyoming.

By Kemal Dervi and Sebastián StraussWASHINGTON, DC — Climate change is probably the biggest threat facing humanity today.

By Homi Kharas and Jaana RemesMXICO CITY — Once the world’s most prosperous emerging-market region, Latin America is in danger of being overtaken by its peers, owing to its sluggish and unevenly distributed growth.

By Rachel Locke and David StevenSAN DIEGO/NEW YORK — In last year’s Pathways for Peace report, the result of a joint study by the United Nations and the World Bank, UN Secretary General António Guterres warned that the world is facing a “dramatic resurgence” of conflict

By Kartik Akileswaran and Georgina HutchinsonLONDON — The Fourth Industrial Revolution is reshaping the world of work. While policymakers in the West are struggling to respond, the task facing African governments appears even more daunting.

By Savio CarvalhoLONDON — A year has passed since the Democratic Republic of the Congo’s health ministry declared a new outbreak of Ebola in the northeast of the country.