Usvatte-aratchi Manmohan Singh, a brilliant economist, distinguished public servant, and remarkable Minister of Finance and ...

Not standing in solidarity with Gaza because of the need to make African conflicts visible is the wrong approach.

THE MASTERS of the universe will have hoped for some peace and quiet over Christmas. The holiday period was the last time for Wall Street financiers to catch a breath before Donald Trump is handed ...

Chart: The Economist By 2030 half of all new entrants into the global workforce will be from sub-Saharan Africa. By 2050 the region’s working-age population will still be rising when it will be ...

On January 6th Justin Trudeau, Canada’s prime minister, announced his resignation after weeks of speculation and a mounting political crisis. The Liberal Party has won three successive elections ...

AMONG EXILED Chinese dissidents, Tang Yuanjun was well known. He had taken part in the Tiananmen Square protests of 1989 and landed in prison as a result. He later defected to Taiwan, swimming to ...

Small wonder sex researchers are passionate about their vocation. Chart: The Economist To start, some are trying to extrapolate more information from basic surveys. Emma Slaymaker of the London ...

Chart: The Economist Lego nearly went under in 2003-04 after branching into too many areas, such as children’s clothes and dolls. Jorgen Vig Knudstorp, who became chief executive in 2004 ...

Your browser does not support the <audio> element. Each December The Economist picks a country of the year. The winner is not the richest, happiest or most virtuous ...

Donald has been criticised for putting together a less diverse cabinet than his predecessors, with Newsweek berating him for being on track to pick “the least diverse cabinet this century”.

Chart: The Economist Despite these difficulties, outfits like GiveWell argue that with sufficiently good data, and reasonable assumptions about moral considerations, it is possible to try to ...