Some really interesting results from a new NBER working paper “Parametric Estimations of the World Distribution of Income,” by Maxim Pinkovskiy and Xavier Sala-i-Martin (Columbia University): Abstract ...

Posters featuring portraits of several world leaders line a road in Johannesburg, South Africa, on November 20, 2025, ahead of the G20 summit to be held there. Credit: AP foto/Themba Hadebe ...

We are at a critical juncture today in the fight against poverty. Despite decades of hard-won development progress, a world free of poverty remains out of sight. Ten years ago, the outlook appeared ...

Thanks to a renewed push by policymakers and two years of historically high gas prices, renewable energy is an issue that has climbed to the top of our national agenda. But in the United States, the ...

Poverty, the impacts of AI and migration issues were discussed as European Economic and Social Committee (EESC) president ...

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Women from the village of Saré Diatta, Senegal, celebrate a local organization called 7a, which Oxfam partners with to help communities gain access to clean water, strengthen food security, and build ...

Do you like to time travel as much as I do? If you’re reading this letter, a form of time travel in its own right, I expect you do. My current favorite way to visit ...