THE World Bank, a trustworthy source of information and data, says that Kenya is the 10th-poorest country in the world, with ...

Governments are hoarding rice and grain as insurance against a world they increasingly view as unstable. But many economists ...

Climate change presents tremendous challenges, especially for people in the Global South. Two international studies led by Charité – Universitätsmedizin Berlin have investigated how the population in ...

Despite what the Kim Jong Un regime tells them, North Koreans will continue their dangerous pursuit of truth, one forbidden ...

Paschal Donohoe “followed official advice” that Ireland’s contribution to the World Bank should amount to €141.4 million before he brought that recommendation to Government for approval last year, ...

Frontier market” economies—a cluster of mostly middle-income economies regarded as the proving ground for the next generation of economic superstars—have largely failed to live up to their potential i ...

The largest island in the world, Greenland (that is not green at all but rather covered by white ice), has in recent months and even several years become ...

VLADIMIR Putin could use Donald Trump’s attempted land grab of Greenland to launch a spate of new invasions, the tyrant’s ...

Oxfam warns extreme wealth concentration is fuelling inequality and undermining democracy, with Irish billionaires earning ...

Authorities in Kosovo have detained 109 people in connection with alleged vote manipulation that has led to a recount of last ...

The fact that the recovery from the economic impact of the pandemic has been so strong is cheering. It is due, not least, to the effectiveness of vaccines, for whose development Donald Trump, with his ...