NEW DELHI — Among the multiple crises that have erupted around the world, the avoidable tragedy of growing hunger receives only fleeting mention.

NEW DELHI — In recent years, soaring food prices and the growing frequency and intensity of floods, droughts, and other extreme weather events have prompted warnings of a looming grain shortage, potentially spelling disaster for the world’s poorest and most vulnerable populations

NEW DELHI — With much of the developing world teetering on the edge of a debt crisis, the calls for a new issuance of special drawing rights (SDRs, the International Monetary Fund’s (IMF’s) reserve asset), have grown louder and more urgent.

NEW DELHI — The global food system is broken.

NEW DELHI — It has taken far too long, but it seems that the International Monetary Fund (IMF) has finally internalised some hard truths about sovereign-debt reduction. Chief among them is that growing economies have an easier time repaying.

NEW DELHI — Carbon pricing is all the rage these days, at least in the developed world. But while global leaders and experts, most of them from rich countries, increasingly embrace the idea of putting the “right price” on carbon, the concept remains vague and ill-defined.

NEW DELHI — Over the past two decades, Indian multibillionaire Gautam Adani’s close ties to Prime Minister Narendra Modi have helped the Gujarati businessman become Asia’s wealthiest person.

NEW DELHI — The World Economic Forum’s annual meeting in Davos, Switzerland, has always been more than a little problematic. But in recent years, the annual gathering of the rich and powerful has become an increasingly wasteful exercise in vanity.

 NEW DELHI — After four decades of fostering integration through trade and finance, the global economy has begun a painful process of fragmentation.