China’s birth-rate struggle underscores the ripples of a one-child policy - China’s population stands at 1.404 billion today, ...

Frontier markets have vast demographic and resource potential and growing access to global finance, but weak investment, fragile institutions, and volatile capital flows have limited their growth.

Even China, which is still moving towards high-income status, now has about 250 researchers per 10,000 people. India’s number ...

Beyond the United States, 2025 saw New Zealand continue its already strong relationships with China and ASEAN alongside ...

Beijing posted a record trade surplus of US$1.19-trillion in 2025 as exports to other markets more than compensated for ...

Cash transfers offer governments a quick, visible response to rising inequality, but they risk masking deeper distortions. As fiscal pressures mount, essential services suffer. To address wide gaps ...

If the corporate and political powers carry on with business as usual, such growth will end in chaotic, violent collapse. Stan Cox This article originally appeared at TomDispatch.com. To stay on top ...

In 2024, about 27% of those who voted in the national election supported a party which, in full or in part, sought the repeal ...

Cities with the worst traffic in the world highlight the growing strain placed on urban infrastructure by modern lifestyles.

Bangladesh is on the path to graduate from Least Developed Country (LDC) status on 24 November 2026. In 2018, and again in ...

Despite lifting the one-child policy to allow three children, the fertility rate remains low. Most families cite the costs ...

China’s economy met the government’s official growth target in 2025, with official figures showing real gross domestic product (GDP) expanded by 5%. Exports played an outsized role in delivering this ...