NEW YORK – A recent visit to Turkey reminded me of its enormous economic successes during the last decade. The economy has grown rapidly, in…

NEW YORK – Children are every country’s most vital resource. This is true not just morally, but also economically. Investing in the health, …

NEW YORK – The surest bet on the future of energy is the need for low-carbon energy supplies. Around 80% of the world’s primary energy today…

NEW YORK – Of all major world regions, Europe has worked the hardest to implement policies aimed at countering human-caused climate change. …

NEW YORK – In 1981, US President Ronald Reagan came to office famously declaring that, “Government is not the solution to our problem. Gover…

NEW YORK – The brutal murder of 20 children and seven adults in Newtown, Connecticut, shakes us to the core as individuals and requires a re…

NEW YORK – When BP and its drilling partners caused the Deepwater Horizon oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico in 2010, the United States governm…

NEW YORK – A country’s economic success depends on the education, skills, and health of its population. When its young people are healthy an…

NEW YORK – In many of history’s most successful economic reforms, clever countries have learned from the policy successes of others, adaptin…

NEW YORK – Great social change occurs in several ways. A technological breakthrough – the steam engine, computers, the Internet – may play a…

NEW YORK – For years, climate scientists have been warning the world that the heavy use of fossil fuels (coal, oil, and natural gas) threate…

NEW YORK – One of the world’s pre-eminent scientific publications, Nature, has just issued a scathing report card in advance of next week’s …

NEW YORK – The critics of foreign aid are wrong. A growing flood of data shows that death rates in many poor countries are falling sharply, …

NEW YORK – The annual spring meetings of the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank have provided a window onto two fundamental tren…

NEW YORK – Last month, I called for the World Bank to be led by a global development leader rather than a banker or political insider. “The …

NEW YORK – The world is at a crossroads. Either the global community will join together to fight poverty, resource depletion, and climate ch…

ADDIS ABABA – Sustainable development means achieving economic growth that is widely shared and that protects the earth’s vital resources. O…

NEW YORK – The world’s greatest shortage is not of oil, clean water, or food, but of moral leadership. With a commitment to truth – scientif…

NEW YORK – A famous claim in economics is that the cost of services (such as health care and education) tends to increase relative to the co…

NEW YORK – The past half-century has been the age of electronic mass media. Television has reshaped society in every corner of the world. No…

NEW YORK – We live in an era in which the most important forces affecting every economy are global, not local. What happens “abroad” – in Ch…

NEW YORK – We live in a time of high anxiety. Despite the world’s unprecedented total wealth, there is vast insecurity, unrest, and dissatis…

NAIROBI – Yet again, famine stalks the Horn of Africa. More than ten million people are fighting for survival, mainly pastoralist communitie…

NEW YORK – The world can breathe easier with the reelection this month of United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon to a second term in o…

NEW YORK – In almost every part of the world, long-festering problems can be solved through closer cooperation among neighboring countries. …