MEXICO CITY  —  Despite the well-known problems with using gross domestic product as an indicator of human development, policymakers around the world still seem to be obsessed with it.

NEW DELHI  —  Primary commodity prices have been on a roller-coaster ride for the past year, and especially for the past six months.

NEW DELHI — In 1972, the United Nations held its first-ever environmental summit in Stockholm. In the run-up to the event, a group of scientists wrote The Limits to Growth, a report for the Club of Rome that became an unlikely bestseller.

NEW DELHI  —  Kim Stanley Robinson’s prescient science-fiction novel The Ministry for the Future begins with a stark description of a major heat wave in a northern Indian city that kills millions of people. The novel is set some decades in the future.

NEW DELHI  —  The main factor limiting the global recovery is not the much-discussed increase in inflation in advanced economies, which is likely to be transient, but rather the massive inequalities between most rich countries and the rest of the world, with the excepti

NEW DELHI  —  The question of how best to control inflation is back on the economic policy agenda and opinion is divided about how to address it.

NEW DELHI — The World Inequality Report 2022, produced by the Paris-based World Inequality Lab, is a remarkable document for many reasons — starting with its demonstration of the immense power of patient collective research.The report provides the latest estimates, based on caref

NEW DELHI — Many people around the world already consider the United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP26) in Glasgow a disappointment. That is a massive understatement.

NEW DELHI — The Apocalypse is now. That is the glaring message of the perfect storm of COVID-19 and climate change that has now broken. The pandemic is unlikely to end for years, as the novel coronavirus mutates into increasingly transmissible, drug-resistant variants.