The latest elections in different African countries have ended with the same outcome: sidelined opposition candidates, disputed results and protests from mostly young voters after incumbents ...

Who Has It, Who Doesn’t, and How That Determines the Fate of Societies,” Michael Albertus emphasizes the politics of land ...

Today, as a new government struggles to put together a budget for 2026, and to the dismay of many centrists, the pension reform has been suspended. In an interview with The Economist on October 28th, ...

The Ivory Coast, the world's top cocoa producer and a centre of growth and stability in west Africa, goes to the polls on Saturday with President Alassane Ouattara expected to win a fourth term.Here ...

President Donald Trump and lawmakers on both sides of the political aisle are not faring well when it comes to the federal government shutdown, according to a new poll. The latest YouGov/The Economist ...

Half of the prize was awarded to Mokyr, a professor at Northwestern University in the United States and at the Eitan Berglas School of Economics at Tel Aviv University in Israel, for identifying the ...

Joel Mokyr, Philippe Aghion and Peter Howitt won the Nobel memorial prize in economics Monday for explaining how innovation creates new products and promotes economic growth and human welfare even as ...

TL;DR: Grab Microsoft Office Pro 2021 for Windows plus a complete Microsoft training bundle for just $39.97 (MSRP: $239.99) — a lifetime license and 25 hours of training in one package. Owning ...

Roundhill Investments has resurrected an exchange-traded fund focused on holding a basket of so-called meme stocks nearly two years after shutting down the original. The Roundhill Meme Stock ETF MEME ...

ANALYSIS: Despite strong national figures—3.8% GDP growth and 4.3% unemployment—large parts of the U.S. are effectively in recession, according to Moody’s Analytics. Chief economist Mark Zandi ...