PS Visionary Voices by business a.m.

NAIROBI—Over the past two decades, feminist economists have scored several policy wins at the national level, ranging from gender-responsive budgets...

WASHINGTON, DC—It is getting harder by the day to justify the slow pace of adaptation to climate change. Last year...

BOGOTÁ—Leading the United Nations has always been a balancing act, but the breakdown of the postwar global order has added...

WASHINGTON, DC—In his first encyclical, Magnifica Humanitas, Pope Leo XIV presents two possible futures for humanity: top-down, technocratic rule, symbolized...

SÃO PAULO—The standard policy response to slums—relocate people, bulldoze the settlement, and build public housing elsewhere—is older than the slums...

JOHANNESBURG—As donor governments slash aid budgets, and multilateral institutions come under increasing financial strain, development organizations must confront the combination of...

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

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

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

NAIROBI—In the lexicon of development, few words sound as reassuring as "graduation," which suggests progress past critical milestones and an...