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NEW YORK/VIENNA – When the post-Cold War world was still in its infancy, there was a palpable sense of excitement about history’s potential end

Facebook shares initially plunged by 8% last Friday amid an increasing number of big brands—most recently joined by Pfizer, Lego and Dunkin Donuts

Bad news — of a very mild variety — for anyone with a couple billion tucked away in the underground lair out back: Living a truly posh lifestyle has gotten juuust a bit pricier over the last 12 months

I’ve been attending the World Economic Forum’s annual conference in Davos, Switzerland – where the so-called global elite convenes to discuss the world’s problems – since 1995. Never have I come away more dispirited than I have this year

Western governments are increasingly extending the territorial reach of their legislation, particularly in the anti-corruption sphere. Their aim is to fight corruption wherever it may be and create a level playing field for the businesses responsible for preventing it. A similar trend is also seen beyond the white-collar crime space, for example in tax and data protection legislation

By now, cholera should be history. For decades, health officials have understood how to prevent the disease, doctors have known how to treat it, and development experts have recognized that with clean water and sanitation, outbreaks rarely become epidemics. Unfortunately, the world is not so simple and neat, and the nightmare of cholera persists

Sofia Begum is a case study in the power of hope. Three months ago, armed vigilantes attacked the six-year-old’s village in Myanmar’s Rakhine State. Sofia saw neighbors killed, an uncle wounded by gunfire, and her home razed

Economic growth worldwide picked up in 2017, and the best guess is that the global economy will perform strongly in 2018 as well. At the same time, a rising tide of populism and authoritarianism poses a risk to the stable democratic institutions that underlie long-term growth. And yet headlines seeming to portend political instability and chaos have not prevented stock markets from soaring. What gives?

After falling for more than a decade, the number of hungry people in the world is rising once again