Portfolio manager Michael W. Green begins his much-discussed essay in the Free Press: For my whole career in finance, I have distrusted the obvious. And yet, for many years there was one number I ...

For years, environmental researchers have been trying to understand if providing a decent living for everyone on Earth would be at odds with reaching our most ambitious climate goals. After all, ...

Illustration by The New York Times. Photograph by Getty Images. By Max Roser Graphics by Sara Chodosh Mr. Roser is the founder of Our World in Data and a professor at the University of Oxford’s ...

We have seen that progress is possible. For the first time on record, more than half of the world's population is now covered by at least one social protection benefit, reflecting sustained ...

This content has been selected, created and edited by the Finextra editorial team based upon its relevance and interest to our community. End poverty in all its forms everywhere. This is an extract ...

We used to be trapped. And by “we,” I really do mean all of us. A few hundred years ago, the majority of the world lived in extreme poverty, and even in recent decades, people lucky enough to clear ...