Tag: global economy

Migrants now send home more money than foreign aid, and this is pulling rural families out of poverty, according to IFAD.

Analysis finds oil and gas price spikes linked to the conflict have shifted massive wealth from households and businesses to major energy companies while lawmakers propose taxing windfall profits.

Bombing of energy infrastructure in Tehran sparks toxic rainfall warnings, record crude price surge, and accusations of war crimes as fires and smoke engulf Iran’s capital.

While oil is a cyclical commodity, and prices rise and fall over time, this time the decline is structural.

The better-prepared industries and countries put up their own protective walls. The rest take out their lifejackets and hope for the best.

However it happens, he really does need to be trumped before he Trumps us all off this planet and global bankruptcy becomes us. 

The report confirmed that while trade in plastic surpassed $1.1 trillion 75 percent of the plastic produced becomes waste and ends up in the world’s oceans and ecosystems.

Will world order will continue as is, with occasional disruptions and non-compliance?

Fantasy magic thinking is a very expensive folly when human lives are at stake.

Oxfam analysis reveals global CEOs now earn 56 times more than average workers as corporate profits surge and economic inequality deepens on International Workers’ Day.