Economic Growth
This is the best place in the world to run a business
The World Bank 2017 Doing Business report looks at the economies where running a business is easiest.
Emma Luxton is a writer at Formative Content.
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Jobs and the Future of Work
You’ve heard of the gender pay gap – but what about the ‘sexuality wage gap’?
Lesbians earn on average 9% more than heterosexual women.
Fourth Industrial Revolution
Imagine a child’s drawing of the sun. NASA shows you're not far off reality
Scientists have, for the first time, captured images of the very edge of the sun.
These are the countries where parents spend the most on childcare
On average families in the OECD spend around 12% of their income on childcare. But there are dramatic variations.
La paradoja hispánica: los científicos descubren por qué los latinos envejecen más lentamente
Según los Centros para el Control y la Prevención de Enfermedades, los latinos en Estados Unidos viven un promedio de tres años más que los caucásicos, con una esperanza de vida de 82 con...
Resilience, Peace and Security
Casi una de cada 100 personas en el mundo ha sido expulsadas de sus hogares
Hay más de 65 millones de personas desplazadas de sus hogares, una cifra récord desde la Segunda Guerra Mundial. Esta cifra supone el 0,8% de la población mundial, o dicho de otra manera,...
Los millennials son más pobres que sus padres
Los mileniales serán la primera generación que gana menos que sus padres. Sin embargo, no todas son malas noticias: un nuevo informe dice que es posible mejorar los ingresos de las personas.
Resilience, Peace and Security
Nearly 1 in 100 people worldwide have been driven away from their homes
Around 65 million people were displaced from their homes at the end of 2015.
Economic Growth
Poorer than their parents. What's gone wrong for this generation?
Between 2005 and 2014, up to 70% of households in advanced economies saw their real incomes flatten or fall.
Geographies in Depth
敌还是友？中国是这样看待美国的
中国与美国的关系？这个关系向来错综复杂。随着唐纳德·特朗普的成功当选，两个经济上的超级大国间的关系更是如此。 今年年初，皮尤研究中心对中国人关于美国、全球化和中国在全球实务上扮演的日益重要的角色的态度进行了探究，并且得到了有趣的结果。 调查发现，75%的受访者认为比起十年前，中国在全世界发挥了更重要的作用。
Geographies in Depth
Friend or foe? This is what China thinks of the United States
Research into Chinese attitudes towards the US, globalization and China's increasing role in global affairs has produced interesting results.
Jobs and the Future of Work
These industries have the largest gender wage gaps
This is what the gender wage gap looks like across industries. Check out the statistics of the gender pay gap by industry in these graphs.
Education and Skills
How the world's top universities are distributed
Seventy-nine countries feature in the Times Higher Education ranking, But they are far from evenly spread.
Leadership
How the gender bias in performance reviews impact womens' careers
Gender bias in performance reviews impacts womens' careers. Here's how the gender disparity in receiving feedback is hindering women's career growth.
Youth Perspectives
¿Qué país tendrá la mayor población del mundo en 2060?
Durante el último medio siglo, China se ha mantenido en el primer lugar, pero se espera que sea superado en el año 2020.