Somesh Jha

From In­di­an rice to Aus­tralian wheat, cli­mate change is wors­en­ing a food crunch and price spikes due to war in Ukraine.

The ma­jor­i­ty of low-in­come na­tions are on the cusp of a debt cri­sis, spark­ing fears of glob­al con­ta­gion.

Health, tech and saved wealth could turn an age­ing work­force from an eco­nom­ic chal­lenge into an ad­van­tage, say ex­perts.

In­dia has the world’s largest work­force. But with­out enough good jobs, that un­matched ad­van­tage could be a night­mare.

The lat­est AI wave will dis­rupt the work­place. Teach­ers could be most af­fect­ed. But it could end up cre­at­ing more jobs.

A flood of na­tions is try­ing to cut de­pen­dance on the dol­lar, fear­ing ‘weapon­i­sa­tion’ by the US. But it won’t be easy.

No, it must ac­cept one, per con­ven­tion­al wis­dom. But Eu­rope’s show­ing an­oth­er way, though it won’t be pain­less ei­ther.

A de­fault by the US gov­ern­ment could have cat­a­stroph­ic ef­fects on both do­mes­tic and glob­al economies.

Every 30 hours, the pan­dem­ic spawned a new bil­lion­aire, while push­ing a mil­lion peo­ple into pover­ty. Here’s why.

France, Spain, Ger­many, Italy and Greece are do­ing some things right, but face chal­leng­ing times ahead, say ex­perts.