By Håvard Halland and Jessica LoveringPARIS/SANTA BARBARA — Multilateral development banks (MDBs) have historically been reluctant to invest in nuclear energy, and the World Bank has not financed a nuclear power plant since 1959.

By Ban Ki-moon and Juan Manuel SantosSEOUL — Russia’s illegal invasion of Ukraine, a blatant attempt to destroy an independent, sovereign state living peacefully within recognised borders, has raised profound questions about the world we want to live in and how international rela

By Benigno López and Eric ParradoWASHINGTON, DC — The barriers to economic progress in Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC) are as well-known as they are formidable. Inequality is high, tax evasion is rampant and education systems are inadequate.

By Tobias Bunde and Sophie EisentrautMUNICH — While the world’s powers may not agree on much these days, most recognise that the world is at a critical juncture.

By Michael Spence and Belinda AzenuiMILAN/GRANVILLE, OHIO — The United States has a productivity problem, though one would never know it from looking only at the industries producing goods and services that are traded internationally.

By Daron Acemoglu and Simon JohnsonCAMBRIDGE  —  Microsoft is reportedly delighted with OpenAI’s ChatGPT, a natural-language artificial-intelligence program capable of generating text that reads as if a human wrote it.

By María Fernanda Espinosa, Ulrich Volz and Yuefen LiNEW YORK/LONDON/GENEVA — November last year was a busy month of climate-change politicking.

By Safia Boly and Omid KassiriNAIROBI — The COVID-19 pandemic, compounded by supply-chain disruptions and surging inflation, has highlighted the fragilities of Africa’s food systems, leading to a 60 per cent increase in hunger across the continent in 2020 alone.

By Naveen Rao and Eloise ToddSAN DIEGO — A day before the latest United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP27) began, a group of global experts convened by The Lancet published a report about the adverse health effects of climate change.