URBANA, ILLINOIS—The United Nations recently released its State of Food Security and Nutrition in the World 2026 report, which, perhaps surprisingly,...

NEW HAVEN—Intervening in financial markets is a fool's game. And yet many seem incapable of internalizing that lesson. So it...

Buying a franchise can be an exciting route into business ownership. Instead of starting a company entirely from scratch, franchisees...

LONDON—Over the long sweep of history, three forces have driven humanity's greatest transformations, for good and ill: disease, war, and...

BOSTON—Almost every major global health emergency has exposed the same flaw in the international financial system. When disaster strikes, the...

By Osasikemwen Ighile, Brand Manager, FairMoney Microfinance Bank For many Nigerian families, the summer holiday is a season of fun,...

By Kehinde Ogundare, Regional Head, West Africa, Zoho Corporation If you were to step away from your business for 30...

DAKAR/RIO DE JANEIRO—For five centuries, raw materials have flowed out of Africa and Brazil at low cost to be used...

PHILADELPHIA—For decades, companies, investors, and policymakers operated on the comforting assumption that the global economy was underpinned by a relatively...

LIBREVILLE/LOS ANGELES—Africa is facing one of the world's great energy windfalls. The continent holds roughly 125 billion barrels of confirmed oil reserves...