Map O.1 Use of aggregated cellphone records to track mobility week by week during COVID-19 lockdowns in The Gambia, March–May, 2020 http://bit.do/WDR2021-Map-O_1 ...

As the theme of this year’s World Population Day reminds us, investing in data collection is important to understanding problems, tailoring solutions, and driving progress. So is finance.

Simply sign up to the Global Economy myFT Digest -- delivered directly to your inbox. Central banks around the world are expected to lower borrowing costs as global inflation eases from the multi ...

Microsoft says it estimates that 8.5m computers around the world were disabled by the global IT outage. It’s the first time a figure has been put on the incident and suggests it could be the ...

China is now an upper-middle-income country. Although China eradicated extreme poverty in 2020, an estimated 17.0 percent of the population lived on less than $6.85 a day (in 2017 PPP terms), the ...