Stéphanie Thomson is a writer and editor at the World Economic Forum.
“Venezuela is in terrible shape,” President Mauricio Macri of Argentina told participants at this year’s World Economic Forum on Latin America. His comment won’t come a surprise, even to ...
The first decade of the new millennium was good to Latin America: poverty rates fell, a solid middle class was born, economies were booming. And then progress stalled. Today, the region e...
This article was updated on 25 August 2016 after the peace deal signed between the Colombian government and the FARC.
“Cruel, inhuman, and degrading.” Those were the words used by a UN panel last week to refer to Ireland’s abortion laws, which it says subject women to suffering and discrimination. Descri...
It’s been a challenging couple of years for the international community. A stagnant global economy, tumbling commodity prices, rising populism, ongoing conflicts.
They produce more than half the world’s oxygen, create more than $128 billion in GDP annually, and hold 97% of the world’s water. Oceans are our lifeline. And yet we know so little about ...
You’ve heard it all before: the gender gap, whether in the world of politics, business or the arts, is real. While progress is still painfully slow, at least people – from presidential ca...
Britain has witnessed a spike in hate crimes in the wake of last week's referendum vote for "Brexit", with more than a hundred incidents of racial and xenophobic abuse reported.
For a long time, Kenya has been one of the most generous refugee-hosting countries, taking in hundreds of thousands of people fleeing war and instability. Now, that looks set to change.
By the end of the year, two of the world’s most powerful political institutions – the United Nations and the US government – could be led by women.
It’s been described as one of the greatest public health achievements of the 20th century: the incredible rate at which maternal mortality has dropped. Less than a century ago, one in eve...
When you hear of “doing business” in war zones, you might think of unscrupulous companies out to take advantage of other people’s misery. While that dark side undoubtedly does exist, the ...
“When America sneezes, the world catches a cold.” The expression might be a bit of a cliché, but it’s still accurate: what happens in the US affects other countries. Which is why whether ...
With all the attention Britain’s in/out referendum received at this month’s IMF Spring Meeting, it could end up being the most important vote of 2016. And in a year that will see the US e...
