The war in Iran has sent energy prices soaring, pushing Asian countries reliant on imported oil and gas to prioritise energy security. Disruptions to shipping through the Strait of Hormuz have exposed ...
India, the world’s fastest-growing major economy, is beginning to show signs of slowing down. The surge in energy prices ...
Pope Leo XIV signed the first papal encyclical regarding artificial intelligence, Magnifica Humanitas, in May. Several ...
Italy’s banking sector is undergoing an unprecedented push toward mergers and acquisitions, with the country’s largest financial institutions convinced they must expand to escape being acquired, a ...
Investors use credit ratings to make well-informed assessments of a bank’s condition. Banks with fewer problematic loans and more stable profits are rated more favorably by top credit-rating agencies.
Trade facilitation has become one of the most effective policy tools available to countries in Asia and the Pacific. As geopolitical tensions, protectionism and slowing growth reshape the global ...
European equities completed the first half of 2026 with a powerful second-quarter (Q2) advance. The MSCI Europe Index, covering 397 large and mid-sized companies across 15 developed European markets, ...
As governments around the world sprang into industrial action amid the COVID-19 pandemic and subsequent crises, so did governments in Europe and Central Asia (ECA). Slowing productivity growth also ...
In the 18th century, Scottish economist Adam Smith formulated an interesting insight in economic thought: the paradox of water and diamonds. “Nothing is more useful than water, but it can hardly buy ...
It was not in his celebrated oath but rather in Of the Epidemics that Hippocrates wrote: “As to diseases, make a habit of two things—to help, or at least to do no harm.” That principle reflects a ...