Confirmed cases of COVID-19 have passed 178.4 million globally, according to Johns Hopkins University. The number of confirmed deaths stands at more than 3.86 million. More than 2.62 bill...
Confirmed cases of COVID-19 have passed 177 million globally, according to Johns Hopkins University. The number of confirmed deaths stands at more than 3.8 million. More than 2.5 billion ...
In 2019, Alzheimer’s disease was the seventh biggest cause of death globally, so it’s likely you know someone who has been affected. It’s the leading cause of death in the UK, where, of t...
1. How COVID-19 is affecting the globe
How will emerging and advanced economies be able to generate the economic growth they need to recover from the pandemic, while also growing sustainably and equitably?
If you were to write a list of your skills, you would probably come up with around 11. But if artificial intelligence assessed them, that figure would more than treble to 34 – and it coul...
Have you read more or less during the past year? Without a commute, you might have lost that window of reading time, or perhaps you’ve looked for solace from reality in the pages of fiction.
Every second in 2020 – and in the midst of the COVID-19 crisis – someone was forced to flee their home from extreme weather events or conflict, in a record year for internal displacement.
This article was first published on 20 September 2020, and subsequently updated on 20 May 2021.
RCEP is a big deal, literally and metaphorically. When it’s signed off, the Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership will create a free trade zone covering about 30% of the world’s gro...
Global trade has a role to play in saving lives in the COVID-19 pandemic, creating jobs and sustainable development that mitigates against climate change.
This article was first published in May 2021 and updated in July 2022.
Just over a year since the World Health Organization declared COVID-19 a pandemic, more than a billion doses of vaccines have been administered.
也许我们从来没有像去年那样渴望投入阅读。
Escaping into a good book has perhaps never been quite as needed as during the past year.
