The US Federal Reserve has raised interest rates by a quarter of a percentage point but indicated it is on the verge of pausing further increases. The small rise is an attempt to balance ...
Competitive video gaming – also known as esports, or electronic sports – is finding its way into educational systems. Japan has just opened its first esports high school, and education pu...
Fears of a global banking crisis increased following a slump in the share price of Swiss bank Credit Suisse and the collapse of US lender Silicon Valley Bank.
Hydrogen – is there anything it might not be able to do? It could power cars, it could help produce steel, it could even heat our homes, people say. But is all this talk just a lot of hot...
The End of History arrived around 1990, according to the famous book by political theorist Francis Fukuyama. Over 30 years later, it seems that everyone is declaring the end of globalizat...
The US Federal Reserve will likely need to raise interest rates more than expected in response to recent strong economic data, Chair Jerome Powell says. He also told the Senate Banking Co...
“It is time for a new Bretton Woods moment,” according to United Nations (UN) Secretary-General António Guterres in his briefing to the UN's General Assembly on Priorities for 2023 last m...
Every country has hundreds of rules and regulations surrounding the construction of buildings. In countries such as Chile and Japan, which face regular earthquakes, many extra rules have ...
India's economic growth slowed further in October-December, but the government is retaining its growth forecast of 7% for 2022-2023 – a level that would make it the world's fastest-growin...
El volumen de deuda de la economía mundial experimentó el año pasado su primera caída anual en dólares desde 2015, gracias en parte al repunte del crecimiento tras la pandemia, pero tambi...
The amount of debt in the global economy saw its first annual fall in dollar terms last year since 2015, thanks partly to the post-pandemic rebound in growth, but also because of inflatio...
"When written in Chinese, the word crisis is composed of two characters – one represents danger, and the other represents opportunity." So said former US President John F. Kennedy, and th...
The European Union's economic growth is likely to be stronger than expected this year, the European Commission says. It also believes economic activity will not contract in the first quar...
World food prices fell in January for a 10th consecutive month, and are now down 18% from the record high they hit last March following Russia's invasion of Ukraine, the United Nations fo...
El Fondo Monetario Internacional (FMI) ha aumentado ligeramente sus perspectivas de crecimiento mundial para 2023, debido a una demanda "sorprendentemente resistente" en Estados Unidos y ...
