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The coronavirus pandemic could put a high premium on the economy and kill 25 million jobs if world capitals do not coordinate their efforts and mount a concerted response to the disease, a preliminary study of...

The coronavirus-triggered uncertainty is likely to cost the global economy $1 trillion in 2020 with possible ramifications for all countries, the UN’s trade and development agency said Monday in its latest report as stocks plunged in...

Can you zoom in on one technology or a tech-enabled platform that you think most critically shapes the way and pace of life? The answer to this apparently broad and perplexing question may not be the...

These are uncertain times as reflected in political upheavals, insurgencies, economic fragility and attempts to stop and even roll back immigration through politics of fear and exclusivist ideologies. Yet, migration of human beings, both as a...

As developing countries struggled to pull their countries out of poverty, the United Nations has warned that corruption undermines democratic institutions and creates global instability. Mirella Dummar-Frahi, Civil Society Team Leader at the United Nations Office...

Aquatic animals and plants are not the only casualties of water pollution. Humans are already paying a high cost in terms of economic losses and health hazards for the “invisible crisis” of water quality . Rapidly...

Hurricanes buffeting the U.S. with ferocious winds and downpours, fires raging close to urban centers, fog and smog covering cities in South Asia and China, flooding and sizzling heat in Western Europe, tsunamis hitting Japan and...

President Donald Trump has decided to end a trade concession program for India, under which New Delhi exported nearly $5 billion of goods to the United States. The Administration’s decision to terminate the Generalized System of...

With ever-expanding global connectivity through Internet and mobile communication technologies, the number of worldwide users of the Internet has swollen like anything.  And, so have cybersecurity threats. According to a new World Economic Forum report, by ...

The public debt around the world has been at the highest level in recent years while growth is screeching to just tepid levels in many countries. The scenario is not limited to any one part of...