Stéphanie Thomson is a writer and editor at the World Economic Forum.
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...
Since Thomas Piketty’s best-selling book Capital took the world by storm in 2014, the issue of inequality – and the wide range of problems it causes – has been top of the political agenda...
It’s often said that when an event takes place outside of the West – a terrorist attack in Turkey, or a bombing in Lebanon – it gets less media attention. The world just doesn’t seem to c...
Equal pay for equal work. It sounds so reasonable, it’s hard to believe that in 2016, we’re still talking about the gender pay gap. And yet the fact remains that there is no country in th...
How do you make it in a man’s world? If there’s one person who should know, it’s Christine Lagarde, the head of the International Monetary Fund. Before leading one of the world’s most pow...
“Today, every inhabitant of this planet must contemplate the day when this planet may no longer be habitable,” former US President John F. Kennedy told the United Nations. It was 1961, th...
It might be over 50 years since the US passed the Equal Pay Act, but women still get paid less than men – in many cases for doing the same work. And even if you’re a World-Cup winning ath...
A controversial law in North Carolina that places strict limits on the protection granted to the LGBT community has been declared a “national embarrassment” by US policy-makers. And now t...
If you were asked to name a famous inventor, who would pop into your head? Benjamin Franklin, Thomas Edison, Albert Einstein, Nikola Tesla, Alexander Graham Bell? Formidable men who gave ...
