Rosamond Hutt is a Senior Writer at Formative Content. Recoded to Forum Agenda on 29/05/2024.
In a letter to world leaders, more than 300 leading economists have called for an end to tax havens, arguing that there is no economic justification for allowing them to continue.
What began in a handful of computer science laboratories more than three decades ago morphed in the 1990s into the world-changing technology that dominates many aspects of our lives, from...
The Bank of Japan has surprised investors around the world by holding off expanding monetary stimulus, despite the problems facing the country’s economy.
Barack Obama has warned that Britain would go to "the back of the queue" for a trade deal if voters opted to leave the European Union in the upcoming referendum.
As world leaders sign the landmark Paris Agreement to tackle climate change on 22 April – the same day as Earth Day – it’s worth thinking about the ways in which we can also do our bit.
Tumbling commodity prices and falling Chinese demand have hit African economies hard. But for all the bad news, the continent’s huge and young population still holds plenty of promise.
Healthcare consumes a large chunk of national budgets all over the world, but which countries are getting the best value for money?
The incident of the Panama Papers, the largest collection of leaked documents ever recorded, has revealed where some of the world’s wealthiest people keep their assets, and how the global...
Stroke, heart and lung diseases, diabetes and cancer are non-communicable – yet they are spreading rapidly across Africa, Asia and Latin America.
The UN has designated 7 April, the start date of the 1994 Rwandan genocide against the Tutsi, in which 800,000 people were killed, as an annual day for the world to reflect on the unimagi...
In 2006, Elon Musk shared his “secret master plan” for Tesla Motors – to build an affordable electric car. A decade on, with the unveiling of a prototype of the Model 3, which is expected...
European and US banks may be on the brink of an "Uber moment", as the explosion of fintech disrupts the industry and leads to massive job cuts over the next decade, a new report predicts.
Africa is one of the most vulnerable regions in the world when it comes to global warming, but the continent is stepping up efforts to find solutions with backing from climate funds.
Imagine a world where all of your thoughts are visible – including to government agencies. This scenario might sound like it’s been plucked straight from the pages of a sci-fi novel, but ...
From the collapse of ancient Rome to the fall of the Mayan empire, evidence from archaeology suggests that five factors have almost invariably been involved in the loss of civilizations: ...
