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KIGALI—Developing economies face a confluence of pressures, each of which implies large investment needs. They must create jobs for rapidly...

SILVER SPRING—In early June, Melinda French Gates pledged $215 million to improve women's health globally, with a focus on underfunded areas such as maternal...

DARTMOUTH, UK—Questions about the financial implications of radical new technologies—AI, space travel, and their associated infrastructures, to pick a few—have...

BOSTON—Designer babies who are genetically engineered for desirable health, physical, and intellectual features are now within reach using existing technologies,...

SAN DIEGO—While pilots learn to trust instruments, smart ones know to peek out the window now and then. For too...

YAOUNDÉ/CAIRO—Evidence of markets' systematic overestimation of risk in developing economies has been piling up for years. The latest addition is...

GENEVA—Despite delivering extraordinary gains in the fight against child mortality and diseases such as HIV, polio, and malaria, the global...

CAMBRIDGE—African economies began this year facing no shortage of challenges, including lower global demand for their goods and services, unpredictable...

CAPE TOWN—As summer begins, a detached observer of global affairs might conclude that financial markets are facing darker days. A...

MUNICH/TORONTO—In June 2025, while testifying under oath before a French Senate inquiry, Microsoft France's director of public and legal affairs...