Due to the complacency of policymakers, the economic model embodied in the Washington Consensus has lost its appeal. Without a new paradigm to replace it, the world economy is in a vulnerable position ...

Since time immemorial, alcohol has been a part of the social fabric of human life on earth. The earliest evidence of intentional alcohol production stems back to 7,000BC, from fermented residues found ...

In 2019, the issue of climate change rose to the top of the global agenda. People from around the world took to the streets in a series of large-scale protests, walking out of their schools and ...

Building on the momentum of last year’s historic World Cup, Qatar is racing towards an exciting new phase of development. Seeking to reduce its reliance on fossil fuels, Qatar’s next chapter will put ...

Unlike many financial products, the precious metal had a fine year. By the end of 2020, its price had increased by 25 percent, outperforming other major asset classes. Its ascent was temporarily ...

In March 2020, reports claimed the World Health Organisation (WHO) had warned against using cash amid fears it could be spreading coronavirus. The WHO later pushed back on the claim, declaring it had ...

Every year, thousands of the world’s foremost leaders and business elite trek to the snow-capped mountains of Switzerland. In the Alpine town of Davos, geopolitical issues are hashed out, economic ...

Until last September, few people beyond the close-knit world of pension asset managers had heard of ‘liability-driven investment’ (LDI), a trading strategy deployed by many pension funds. When the ...

Former Bank of England governor Mark Carney has turned his attention to the next great emergency facing our planet: climate change On a grey, Glaswegian Sunday in mid-November, COP26 negotiations drew ...

In 2014, the American Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) declared sleep disorders a “public health epidemic”; two years later, the World Health Organisation released a study, Sleep ...

One way of measuring global policy-makers’ concerns about the unprecedented increase in debt around the world is the number of times the subject is raised at high-level conferences. And it comes up ...

Two years on from the pandemic, the banking sector is facing a sea change in terms of how the workplace is defined, how best to implement technology solutions holistically as well as taking important ...