The latest communiqu from IMF's World Economic Outlook [WEO], released Friday stressed the IMF's view of a significantly slower pace in global growth during the second half of fiscal '08, before a gradual ...

This does not feel like the best time to try to bring off a historic free-trade deal.

Accra, July 20 : Gobind Nankani, prominent Indian-origin development economist and head of the Global Development Network , has been honoured with a top Ghanaian national award for his contributions to the ...

Are exploding oil prices about to burn Latin America? With the largest petroleum reserves outside the Middle East, the region has been on a roll in recent years.

When a country shifts from authoritarian rule to democracy it provides a window of opportunity for women to secure wider rights and economic gains, a prominent Brazilian sociologist says.

Despite the scientific consensus that climate change is occurring, there remain sharp political disagreements both here in the United States and around the world about how policymakers should respond.

From 2003 to 2007, the number of corneas sent to other countries from the United States dropped to a total of 10,731, from a high of 14,196, according to the Eye Bank Association of America.

Rumors are rife that the farmer suicide pandemic hitting India is directly related to Monsanto, Cargill, and Syngenta--multinational agri-business What is happening here? In 1998, the World Bank's structural ...