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Ageing and Longevity
Why are millennials better at saving than their parents?
Millennials started saving for retirement 10 years before their baby-boomer parents, a new report finds. Experts say they face more risk as pensioners.
Ageing and Longevity
This is why we’ll probably have to work longer than our parents did
China is just one of many countries now raising their retirement ages as populations grow old and birth rates decline. Not everyone is happy about it.
United States
As economists warn of a recession, what lies ahead for the US economy?
The US is facing the familiar precursors of a recession, including rising interest rates following high inflation. The Fed's decisions will be critical
COVID-19
Here's how COVID-19 fiscal support has affected our spending behaviour
COVID-19 saw an increase in fiscal support for people. But how has that impacted our spending habits? Data suggests a positive correlation, say researchers.
Sri Lanka
Why Sri Lanka is facing one of its worst economic crises
Sri Lanka is under an economic crisis. It has defaulted on its foreign debts for the first time ever. It comes as the population faces a scarcity of essential items and 12-hour power cuts.
Health and Healthcare
How innovative financing will help prepare for future pandemics
Using an innovative financing model — already deployed against COVID and malaria — the international community can build an equitable and resilient future.
Public Finance and Social Protection
New Scheme Aims To Halve Childcare Costs In Canada
Taxes
The Biscay Model: innovation in taxation could advance the SDGs. An expert explains
Taxation is a powerful tool to mobilize resources, redistribute wealth and promote sustainability. We outline how the Biscay Model is advancing the SDGs.
Infrastructure
Screens over shovels: Using digital technology to modernize public works
With ever increasing pressure on public infrastructure, researchers reveal that digitising public works could revolutionise our public infrastructure.
Public Finance and Social Protection
Explainer: What is a stock split?
A stock split increases a company's number of shares, without affecting its overall value. Companies do them to increase liquidity or to signal good news.
Sustainable Finance and Investment
Payment fintechs: What are the benefits of this innovative form of lending?
Electronic payment providers - payment fintechs - are entering the lending market, but still struggle to manage those that intentionally default loans.
Pandemic Preparedness and Response
How fiscal support is boosting our COVID-19 recovery
Countries worldwide launched wide-scale fiscal support measures to mitigate the output losses caused by lockdowns aimed at flattening the COVID-19 curve.
Education, Skills and Learning
Study suggests link between welfare payments and enhanced brain activity in babies
A new study suggests that alleviating poverty leads to improved brain activity in babies - and is associated with better learning outcomes in later life.
COVID-19
3 keys to a resilient post-pandemic recovery
Governments and the private sector must react now to create a resilient economy and unified agenda for sustainable, inclusive growth
Financial and Monetary Systems
This is how the top cryptocurrencies performed in 2021
2021 saw the crypto markets boom, with different sectors flourishing and largely outperforming bitcoin. Solana, for example saw an 11,177.8% increase.
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