Oxfam says climate crisis forcing millions from homes
Climate-fueled disasters have forced about 20 million people a year to leave their homes in the past decade -- equivalent to one every two seconds -- according to a new report from Oxfam.
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World may be headed for Great Stagnation
For all the chatter about a looming recession in the United States or Europe, it's important to remember: right now, forecasters don't expect the global economy to contract.
Global economists predict world's lowest growth in decade
The world economy is slowing, and it could be headed toward a recession.
Island nations mull geoengineering to slow climate change
Tall and stony-faced, with a long and bitter history of fighting for democracy, Tongan leader Akilisi Pōhiva is not someone you'd expect to break down in tears at an intergovernmental summit.
More than 100 people rescued in Bahamas
Amid rescues in devastated areas, officials in the Bahamas raised the death toll from Hurricane Dorian, brought in body bags and coolers and said hundreds of residents remain missing.
French compromise with US on tech tax far from settled
Hold on to your bottles of Bordeaux, Burgundy and Pinot Noir.
US and France reach compromise on digital tax
Officials from France and the United States have reached a compromise on a new French tax on services provided by large internet companies, potentially defusing the threat of a trade conflict between the two countries.
Foreign investment in America, a driver of jobs, declining
America is a money magnet. And one of the more powerful forces driving the US economy has long been investment in American businesses from other countries. But foreign direct investment in the United States has declined significantly over the past two years.
Trump administration freezes foreign aid funds pending review
The Trump administration has put a temporary hold on the majority of congressionally approved foreign aid funds, pending a review by the State Department and the US Agency for International Development. Critics say the move undercuts Congress and fear that it is another attempt by the administration to cancel aid programs that advocates see as vital to US interests.
India to cut taxes, red tape to lure the likes of Apple
India, until recently the world's fastest growing major economy, wants to haul itself out of a slowdown by cutting business taxes and making it easier for foreign companies like Apple to invest.
These experts think oil demand won't peak until 2035
Global oil demand is likely to keep rising for at least another 15 years before Asia's fast growing economies catch up to the shift from hydrocarbons to electric power, a leading consultancy said on Monday.
Legacy of lunacy haunts Kenya's old railway
In 1903, British colonial administrator Sir Charles Norton Edgecumbe Eliot made a bold statement: "It is not uncommon for a country to create a railway, but it is uncommon for a railway to create a country."
Trump interviews Heidi Cruz for World Bank post
President Donald Trump is casting a wide net in the search for a new leader of the World Bank, one that, against all odds, has included the woman at the root of a bitter 2016 primary battle.
The World Bank just got more pessimistic about global growth
The World Bank has been warning of a worldwide economic slowdown for a while now, but its projections just took a turn for the worse.
US spends twice as much on health care as its peers
Despite many efforts to rein in US health care costs in recent years, spending is still on the rise.
South Koreans are working themselves to death
It takes Park Hyun-suk, a widow who lost her husband to gwarosa -- the Korean word for death by overwork -- a long time to find a photo of them together.
