Addis Ababa’s main avenues are getting a facelift. The Ethiopian capital is adding maroon bike lanes, tree-lined verges, and new storefronts in regulation gray to its biggest streets. Prime Minister ...
The headlines coming out of COP29—the recently concluded United Nations climate conference—focus on one key number: $300 billion. This is the annual amount of climate finance the governments of wealthy ...
Browsing through the official photos of the annual BRICS summit in the Russian city of Kazan last month yields intriguing surprises. In several of them, Russian President Vladimir Putin holds ...
Global markets responded to the apparent victory of former President Donald Trump early Wednesday with a mix of fear and anticipation, as the presumptive winner’s proposed economic policies promise smooth ...
Despite the impression that money laundering mainly occurs in small, landlocked European states or islands covered in palm trees, in reality, the U.S. political and economic system is remarkably open ...
This year, David Miliband wrote that World Bank and International Monetary Fund (IMF) summits “have little of the drama of peace negotiations” but that “for the poorest people in the ...
In recent years, Taiwan wargames have become standard practice from Capitol Hill to Wall Street. The exercises model pathways China might pursue to achieve its desired end goal: bringing the ...
Welcome back to Foreign Policy’s Latin America Brief. The highlights this week: Ecuador boosts regional efforts to create a new security alliance, Mexico passes a polarizing judicial reform, and Peruvians reflect on ...
It is clear to everyone that decarbonization is happening far too slowly. Even the best-performing high-income countries are not reducing their emissions fast enough to achieve the Paris Agreement objectives—not ...
Welcome to Foreign Policy’s China Brief. The highlights this week: Executives at Chinese state banks face new pay limits, Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban visits Beijing, and China’s trucking industry ...
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