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By Ian Goldin - Dec 08, 2014 - Last updated at Dec 08, 2014 23:02
The last few decades of globalisation and innovation have resulted in the most rapid progress that the world has ever known.
Poverty has be ...
By Jonathan Woetzel - Dec 08, 2014 - Last updated at Dec 08, 2014 23:01
Providing decent, affordable housing is a growing challenge in developing and developed economies alike.
With demand far exceeding supply, ...
By Lassina Zerbo - Dec 08, 2014 - Last updated at Dec 08, 2014 22:59
In these days of economic woe, potential pandemic disease and widespread civil unrest, it may come as a surprise that so many people around ...
By Eva Hoffman - Dec 06, 2014 - Last updated at Dec 06, 2014 23:12
Among the most chilling developments in the rise of the Islamic State (IS) is that so many citizens of Western countries have joined the gro ...
By Anthony B. Miller - Dec 04, 2014 - Last updated at Dec 04, 2014 22:54
Breast cancer screening has long been viewed as one of the most important tools for reducing mortality from the disease.
That is why recent ...
By Amartya Sen - Nov 30, 2014 - Last updated at Nov 30, 2014 22:54
Human beings have always lived in groups, and their individual lives have invariably depended on group decisions.
But the challenges of gro ...
By Ivan Krastev - Nov 19, 2014 - Last updated at Nov 19, 2014 22:58
Global temperatures are rising, but the former Soviet Union’s frozen conflicts show no sign of a thaw. ...
By Monica Duffy Toft - Nov 12, 2014 - Last updated at Nov 12, 2014 22:49
The United States and its allies are facing another major policy challenge in Iraq.
Air strikes against the Islamic State might unsea ...
By Tony Abbott - Nov 12, 2014 - Last updated at Nov 12, 2014 22:47
In a few days, the leaders of the G-20 economies will arrive in Australia for the Brisbane summit.
Six years ago, the impact of the global ...
By Joaquim Chissano - Nov 11, 2014 - Last updated at Nov 11, 2014 22:55
Sub-Saharan Africa’s economies have boomed in recent years.
But the headline figures often mask longer-term problems — no ...
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