In Ghana, a group of enterprising women and young people is building bicycles out of an unlikely material: bamboo.Ten farmers grow the bamboo and 25 builders craft it into environmentally friendly bikes that can be used on Ghana’s bumpy roads or exported overseas.Bernice Dapaah,

By Simon Johnson and Jonathan RuaneThe world has no shortage of pressing issues.

By Nils Simon and Lili Fuhr If there are any geologists in millions of years, they will easily be able to pinpoint the start of the so-called Anthropocene — the geological age during which humans became the dominant influence on our planet’s environment.Wherever they will lo

By Strive Masiyiwa                                          and Richard Branson Despite impressive economic development in recent years, Africa still lags far behind on e

From Fawaz’s home in a makeshift refugee camp just across the border from Syria, where he lives with his now-displaced family, one danger has been traded for another.“There are no schools. There is no education. My children have no toys.

India has lately been pursuing an ambitious goal: a cashless economy.Despite early missteps and frustrations, it will turn out to be a change for the better for the country’s 1.31 billion people.Africa should set a similar goal — and take the first step by establishing a monetary

The past few decades have brought incredible progress for women and children’s health.Since 1990, preventable child deaths have declined by 50 per cent, and maternal mortality has fallen by 45 per cent.

As Britain focuses on what its relationship with the European Union might look like once it leaves the bloc, sometime during 2019, the rest of the world is already girding for the post-Brexit era.For many African countries in particular, preparing for the inevitable divorce is no

In the two decades from 1979 to 1999, the number of manufacturing jobs in the United States drifted downward, from 19 million to 17 million.But over the next decade, between 1999 and 2009, the number plummeted to 12 million.That more dramatic decline has given rise to the idea th