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Are social norms really the main cause of low female employment?
By Ashwini Deshpande - Jan 17, 2024 - Last updated at Jan 17, 2024 22:48
NEW DELHI — In China, the painful custom of binding young girls’ feet to alter their shape began in the tenth century and continued for a mi ...
Harmonising global green taxonomies
By Makhtar Diop - Jan 16, 2024 - Last updated at Jan 16, 2024 23:07
 WASHINGTON, DC — Football (soccer) has been around for centuries, but it did not always look like the game we know today. ...
Pandemic or not, medical oxygen remains essential
By Peter Sands - Jan 15, 2024 - Last updated at Jan 15, 2024 22:30
GENEVA — Among the most shocking images from the COVID-19 pandemic were of people gasping for air, unable to breathe, their blood oxygen so ...
What the global economy and security require
By Carla Norrlöf - Jan 13, 2024 - Last updated at Jan 13, 2024 21:55
 STOCKHOLM — The global order is undergoing significant changes that demand a new economic-security agenda. ...
COP 28 Summit: Pioneering path to sustainable tomorrow
By Bayan Sabha - Jan 12, 2024 - Last updated at Jan 12, 2024 00:23
In an era confronting formidable challenges, climate change emerges as a paramount obstacle facing humanity. ...
The global economy has yet to turn the corner
By Indermit Gill and M. Ayhan Kose - Jan 12, 2024 - Last updated at Jan 12, 2024 00:22
WASHINGTON, DC — As 2024 begins, the outlook for the global economy seems to be improving. ...
Can Latin America escape its second lost decade?
By Jose Antonio Ocampo - Jan 04, 2024 - Last updated at Jan 04, 2024 23:55
BOGOTÁ — Latin America has come to the end of its second lost decade of development. ...
Clarifying America’s great inequality debate
By Daron Acemoglu - Jan 04, 2024 - Last updated at Jan 04, 2024 00:04
BOSTON — Debates about inequality trends in the United States have leapt from the pages of academic journals to leading media outlets. ...
Europe’s flawed approach to critical minerals
By Sophia Pickles - Dec 30, 2023 - Last updated at Dec 30, 2023 22:50
LONDON — A factory might appear economically valuable, but if it is polluting so much that it destroys the surrounding ecosystem, it is not ...
Mainstream economics’ mediaeval inflation mmedicine
By James K. Galbraith - Dec 30, 2023 - Last updated at Dec 30, 2023 22:49
 AUSTIN — When assessments of the quasi-inflation of 2021-22 appeared in major US media outlets this month, the prognosis was good: The ...

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