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The Biden administration announced last week the first 10 prescription medications for which it will negotiate prices under the Inflation Reduction Act, including some of the most commonly prescribed drugs for heart disease and diabetes. Here's how price negotiations could change things.

People living in small-scale societies on the fringes of the modern world lead lives as happy and satisfying as folks from wealthy, technologically advanced nations, researchers reported.

The COP28 Climate Summit made history after several wealthy nations made massive contributions to a fund that would help poorer countries cope with the effects of climate change.

The United Nationa has urged wealth countries to do more to achieve zero planet-hearing emissions to fight the effects of climate crisis. Read more here.

Antonio Guterres opened United Nations climate ambition summit with attack on wealthy countries and the fossil fuel industry

The Biden administration announced last week the first 10 prescription medications for which it will negotiate prices under the Inflation Reduction Act, including some of the most commonly prescribed drugs for heart disease and diabetes. Here's how price negotiations could change things.

It’s probably owing to management style and culture, Nick Bloom posits—but no one can say for sure.

Almost 40% of the developing world is in serious debt trouble, and it will impact whether these countries can educate their growing populations.

The US is growing faster and slowing inflation quicker than many other wealthy countries, even though Americans are still hurting from high prices.

The World Bank's latest report highlights that rapid aging in wealthy and middle-income countries will make their economies increasingly dependent on migration from poorer countries. As a result, policymakers need to better manage this process, matching migrants' skills with the needs of destination countries, protecting refugees, and reducing the need for distressed movements.