Over the last 15 years, the number of students worldwide has increased by some 243mn, a reflection of governments’ commitment to expanding access to education.

Experience in Japan, the United States and Europe shows that a straightforward legal approach to ensuring equal rights and opportunities can take a century or more

Global growth is now being stuck in a “mediocre” plateau, but no one seems to bother. World growth risks getting trapped in the 2%-3% range it’s been in since 2010.

Multi-drug-resistant tuberculosis imposes a massive burden on countries’ public-health systems and economies

You already know, I take it, that you’re supposed to take regular breaks throughout the work day. You’ve seen the stories about how sitting at a desk is worse than attacking yourself with an Ebola-infected chainsaw;

If Nico Rosberg believes in omens, then they are looking good for his Formula One world championship title.

Over the last decade or so, productivity growth has slowed considerably in most major developed economies, even as impressive advances have been made in areas like computing, mobile telephony, and robotics.

This summer, an electrical power auction in Chile attracted successful bids by wind generators willing to provide electricity at $0.04 per kilowatt hour and solar generators at $0.03 per kwh, easily beating fossil-fuel competitors.

Pakistan’s nuclear programme is in the spotlight once more.

If drug-resistant infections in people and animals are allowed to spread unchecked, some 28mn people will fall into poverty by 2050, and a century of progress in health will be reversed, the World Bank said on Monday.

A colleague of mine, a fellow manager, is a bully.

In a destroyed building in Syria’s Aleppo, neighbours Abu Ahmed and Mohamed Ibrahim desperately rummaged through rubble and debris in search of scraps of plastic to turn into fuel.