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Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport is, once again, the busiest airport in the world. However, Dubai International Airport processed the most international passengers. Passenger traffic ...

A battle is raging in the quiet corridors of the United Nations. Last December, the UN General Assembly passed a resolution to start negotiations on a new, fairer global tax architecture. The proposed ...

In his memoir, The World of Yesterday, the Austrian writer Stefan Zweig looked back on Europe before the First World War. That was, he wrote, the Golden Age of Security, when institutions such as the ...

The World Bank has updated its global poverty lines. This latest revision uses 2021 purchasing power parities, as well as updated national poverty lines that better capture countries’ household ...