Mark Jones is Commissioning Editor of The World Economic Forum Agenda. Previously, he worked as the Global Editor, Networked Journalism, and the Global Communities Editor for Reuters News.
The rise of populism, nationalism and protectionism are all associated with waning support for globalization, but a new poll for the World Economic Forum’s Annual Meeting 2019 shows high ...
U.S. Senator John McCain, a former prisoner of war in Vietnam who ran for president in 2008, died on Saturday. He was 81.
Huge investment is going into digital technology. Some fear this won't boost productivity as much as the steam engine, the assembly line, or the computer did in previous waves of technica...
Our future’s bright: new technology promises solutions to the world’s biggest problems. But the future’s also frightening: accelerating change is disrupting every aspect of life
When G7 leaders failed to convince President Trump to keep the US in the Paris Climate Accord back in May, French President Emmanuel Macron turned to the others and said, “China leads”.
Syria, Trump, jobs and the possibility of a post-oil economy -- these were among the themes writ large in a meeting that brought together 1,100 global leaders in Jordan. Here are some of ...
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In 2015, a quarter of a century after liberalising its economy, India grew faster than China. The IMF expects more of the same for this year making India the fastest-growing large economy...
The International Monetary Fund (IMF) was expected to raise its estimate of global economic growth by 0.1% because the early months of the year went better than expected, particularly in ...
Global leaders, CEOs, and other influential figures gathered at the World Economic Forum’s annual meeting in Tianjin, China have been reacting to Friday’s news that Britain is to leave th...
Brexit could mark the start of disintegration in Europe, says Nouriel Roubini, one of the few economists to predict America's 2007-8 housing crash.
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Countries on the frontline of the war on drugs have been losing patience with global efforts to tackle the issue.
The wildly popular Netflix series “Narcos” dramatizes the rise and fall of Pablo Escobar – leader of the infamous Medellín drug cartel that dominated the supply of cocaine to the US – and...
