Global & Business Views

A new study measures its impact on women’s employment worldwide

It could help boost human capital, and ultimately growth

And some of it is making progress, writes Geoffrey Carr

Three forces will shape the business of generative AI

Links between the region’s countries are getting stronger. But America’s loss is not entirely China’s gain.

As “chairman emeritus” the Fox and News Corp boss will still wield plenty of clout

It understands the value of education and manages its teachers well.

As the supply of debutantes dries up, etiquette experts explore a new market

An index by our sister company rates the best, and worst, cities in which to live

What might change the world’s dire demographic trajectory?

They bring enormous promise and peril. In the first of three special articles we explain how they work

Not all high-end brands will lose their shine

Markets can be split into three camps: early adjusters, bullet-dodgers and slow movers.

So far, people seem remarkably blasé.

On average, men can expect to spend 20 years kicking back.

A small, fertiliser-rich country sniffs the limits of its old model.

The tech giants are going all in on artificial intelligence. Each is doing it its own way.

Rice feeds more than half the world—but also fuels diabetes and climate change.

They are woke, broke and complicated. Businesses should take note.

Gautam Adani takes on India’s essential, impossible job: redeveloping Dharavi.

Some towns and suburbs will have to move to higher ground.

Passkeys? Post-quantum cryptography? Vertiports? Get up to speed here.

It is economically rational for ambitious women to try as hard as possible to be thin.

Everything app. Or nothingburger.

Long lags in monetary policy are no argument for inaction.

Which will have more success?

A $700bn industry flirts with new materials, new countries—and new clients.

Employers are wondering where the staff went.

Behind a stagnation in users lies a stagnating product.

It is becoming a bit easier to peer inside firms.

The downturn is unlikely to lay waste to tech on the old continent again.

The pecking order of financial centres is changing.

Soaring food and fuel prices are adding to pre-existing grievances.

Sports teams, like people, are moving south and west.

A mild downturn may be followed by a painfully prolonged recovery.

With his threats to use the bomb, Russia's president has overturned the nuclear order.

Why companies have become more prone to over-ordering stock.

Food shopping is expensive and inefficient, but change is coming.

The industry’s giants are slowing their hiring.

The continent needs places where anyone can picnic, hang out or even protest.

A once-furtive friendship has burst into the open.

But will they make a difference?

The chain has arrested its decline by closing stores and diversifying its business.

Companies need to take it more seriously.

Western allies are starting to split over the conditions for a peace.

The energy crunch offers the state a chance to live up to its green reputation.

Chinese companies have made their mark on the African continent, in ways good and bad.

Journalists are struggling worst conditions since the cold war.

It is still too hard for small shareholders to be heard.

What Taiwan can learn from Ukraine about resisting invasion.

Red tape, taxes and gangsters keep small firms small.

As well as enormous volatility.

As defaults escalate, another shock threatens to hit the global economy.

Turn the atolls themselves into power stations.

The past decade has been a golden one for private financial markets. As they become bigger they are being dramatically reshaped, says Matthew Valencia.

Property investors are sitting on big losses.

Trade has been about growth and efficiency. Now other goals are competing for attention, says Soumaya Keynes.

Young Chinese are both patriotic and socially progressive. That mix is already changing their country, says Stephanie Studer, our China correspondent.

Young Chinese are both patriotic and socially progressive. That mix is already changing their country, says Stephanie Studer, our China correspondent.

Intermittent renewables and current mayhem in energy markets highlight the importance of firms that link up producers of power with faraway consumers.