This year’s annual United Nations climate talks in Bonn started the way COP28 in Dubai ended last December, with some representatives from developing countries in the Global South feeling excluded ...

We’re almost a quarter of the way through the 21st century, and the past 25 years or so have been a tale of two economies when it comes to bridging the gap between the world’s richest and poorest ...

The first is that using AI involves the application of statistical methods to identify patterns, propose hypotheses (predictive, generative AI), simulate, and ultimately stimulate scenarios. In other ...

The Economic Issues series aims to make available to a broad readership of nonspecialists some of the economic research being produced on topical issues by IMF staff. The series draws mainly from IMF ...

Anna Kristiina Härri receives funding from the Strategic Research Council of Finland. She is affiliated with the Greens in Finland. Jarkko Levänen has received funding from the Research Council of ...

IN ONE OF his final acts of global engagement, Pope Francis convened a Jubilee Commission of experts—including ourselves and other leading experts in debt and development—at the Vatican to address a ...