The digital economy is bringing great opportunities for people, but also many risks, says Portugal’s Minister of the Economy, Pedro Siza Vieira.

Millions of people around the world suffer—and many die prematurely—because of air pollution. The culprit: fossil fuel burning. It's poisoning the ai…

When governments need to buy anything from office supplies to infrastructure, the process is more complex than your ordinary shopping trip.

Who are the Gilets Jaunes and what do they want? We talk to Sophie Pedder, who is Paris bureau chief of the Economist and author of "Revolution Francaise: Emmanuel Macron and the quest to reinvent a nation".

The European Parliament and Council are currently negotiating the Artificial Intelligence Act, which introduces common regulatory and legal framework for Artificial Intelligence (AI) in all domains except the military. However, the negotiations pose...

The OECD, which launched the Base Erosion and Profit Shifting (BEPS) initiative in 2013, has been leading international talks to address these issues, and is aiming towards a landmark agreement on new tax rules in 2021. Grace Perez-Navarro, deputy...

Alperton Community School is in one of London’s lowest-income areas, Brent. Almost half of the children there live below the poverty line. And yet th…

“Why is the sky blue?” “Why do people get sick?” “Why aren’t there any more dinosaurs?” Sometimes it feels like children never stop asking questions.…

In 2015, the United Nations released the Sustainable Development Goals to help create a more sustainable and equitable world.

Misinformation and disinformation have become some of the biggest threats to democracy in the 21st century. It's everywhere from stories of election fraud to vaccines. How can we combat misinformation and disinformation while still protecting freedom...

Professor Steve Keen, a self-described contrarian and anti-economist, talks with us about what caused the financial crisis and how to avoid it in the future.

Dr. Sally Roever of Women in Informal Employment Globalizing and Organizing, known as WIEGO, explains how social dialogue can broaden our understanding of work, unpack our assumptions about labour, and better working conditions for women around the world.

Geoff Mulgan, Chief Executive of the National Endowment for Science Technology and the Arts in the UK, discusses the crowdsourcing power behind platforms like Wikipedia and Google maps. And how well-designed collective intelligence can revolutionise...

UN Special Envoy for the Ocean, Peter Thomson, talks to us about ocean biodiversity, coral reefs and acidification. And the miracle of intertidal marshes, seagrass beds, lagoons, and mangrove forests.

Mental illness comes with a big pricetag. The OECD estimates the total cost of mental disorders in the EU to be more than 4% of GDP--over €600 billion. But no price can be put on the cost of mental illness for the person suffering from it. “It’s okay...

Matthew Taylor discusses some ideas on how to extend the social security net to platform workers and how he thinks the general landscape of employment will evolve.

Is the current state of the modern man something to be concerned about? Does childhood well-being vary greatly between boys and girls?

Nowadays, many of us are temps, self-employed, and artists. We work part-time, pick up gig work, take on zero-hour contracts. How do we reconcile social security like pensions, unemployment benefits, and medical insurance with these more fluid forms...

Retaining talent of all ages has become one of the most important issues facing employers today. How are people 55 to 64 faring in today’s labour market and how can we build an effective, multi-generational workforce? The OECD’s Shruti Singh and...

Sociologist and political economist William Davies takes us back to the decoupling of reason and emotion in the 17th century, and why we must fuse them back together in the 21st.