Últimas Notícias - Internacional 22/08/2019 11:44:01 The poor, who most need insurance, are least likely to have it Mobile phones and innovative firms can help Continue lendo... 16/08/2019 21:00:00 The global gag on free speech is tightening In both democracies and dictatorships, it is getting harder to speak up Continue lendo... 09/08/2019 20:00:00 How to curb the trade in endangered species A triennial summit in Geneva has little progress to celebrate Continue lendo... 31/07/2019 21:00:00 Are Western democracies becoming ungovernable? Politicians sometimes say so, but mean different things in different countries Continue lendo... 26/07/2019 21:00:00 Parliaments get facelifts; but it is politics that really needs one Renovations give parliamentarians an opportunity to shore up democracy. Will they take it? Continue lendo... 17/07/2019 21:00:00 Space law is inadequate for the boom in human activity there The law has big gaps. Who is liable for space debris? And is space mining even legal? Continue lendo... 11/07/2019 11:51:14 Why are happy people voting for angry parties? The rise of populism comes at a time when people say they are feeling fine Continue lendo... 09/07/2019 21:00:00 Children make parents happy, after all Particularly so when they are aged under ten Continue lendo... 05/07/2019 21:00:00 A brief history—and future—of credit scores They can transform an economy. But they are only as robust as the data underlying them Continue lendo... 28/06/2019 21:00:00 The Gulf of Guinea is now the world’s worst piracy hotspot The tricks that baffled buccaneers off Somalia and South-East Asia may not help in west Africa Continue lendo... 21/06/2019 21:00:00 Pet-ownership is booming across the world It seems not to be doing the owners as much good as they think Continue lendo... 14/06/2019 21:00:00 Air-traffic control is a mess Costly old systems cannot cope with congestion in the sky. Vested interests block reform Continue lendo... 07/06/2019 21:00:00 Magic mushrooms, illegal in most places, may have therapeutic uses The active ingredient, psilocybin, offers hope in treating depression Continue lendo... 07/06/2019 21:00:00 Psychedelic tourism is a niche but growing market A “mushroom journey” is for some the trip of a lifetime Continue lendo... 29/05/2019 21:00:00 Zambia cuts malaria fatalities, but not the number of cases Its aim of becoming the first malaria-free country in sub-Saharan Africa by 2021 looks very ambitious Continue lendo... 29/05/2019 21:00:00 Malaria is fighting back against efforts to eliminate it In Africa cases are as frequent as ever; in South-East Asia drug-resistant strains are appearing Continue lendo... 23/05/2019 11:52:01 How climate change can fuel wars Droughts are already making conflict more likely. As the world gets hotter, mayhem could spread Continue lendo... 17/05/2019 21:00:00 The boundaries between politics and stand-up comedy are crumbling Comics are running for office; politicians are trying to be funny Continue lendo... 09/05/2019 11:54:18 What Caster Semenya’s case means for women’s sport A very specific ruling for a very special runner has implications far beyond athletics Continue lendo... 03/05/2019 21:00:00 Global meat-eating is on the rise, bringing surprising benefits As Africans get richer, they will eat more meat and live longer, healthier lives Continue lendo... 27/04/2019 21:00:00 Military spending around the world is booming America and China are committing vast sums to their armed forces Continue lendo... 26/04/2019 21:00:00 How monarchies survive modernity As Japan’s emperor hands over to his son and the Thai king is crowned, monarchies are thriving Continue lendo... 17/04/2019 11:54:00 Sudan and Algeria overthrow despots but not their political systems Both could end up with new rulers much like the old ones Continue lendo... 17/04/2019 11:54:00 How to predict when a despot will fall The economy matters, but so do history and the weather Continue lendo... 12/04/2019 21:00:00 Kidney donors are wanted, dead or alive Since there are not enough of either kind, donation needs to be better organised Continue lendo... 04/04/2019 11:45:40 Why governments move civil servants out of national capitals They want to unclog cities, save money and smooth regional inequality Continue lendo... 04/04/2019 11:45:40 Foreign internship Continue lendo... 28/03/2019 12:42:12 Foreign internship Continue lendo... 28/03/2019 12:42:12 The clamour to return artefacts taken by colonialists Former colonies want their cultural treasures back Continue lendo... 28/03/2019 12:42:11 How Sackler cash made museums a target for protests Woke art-lovers prefer galleries untainted by donors they dislike Continue lendo... 21/03/2019 12:41:10 Why white nationalist terrorism is a global threat The Christchurch killer acted alone but followed a terrifying trend Continue lendo... 20/03/2019 21:00:00 Turkey and New Zealand row over the Christchurch massacre Turkey’s President Erdogan sees political benefits in blaming the killings on global Islamophobia Continue lendo... 15/03/2019 21:00:00 What disasters reveal about mental-health care Counselling by amateurs costs little and can work wonders Continue lendo... 14/03/2019 12:43:52 Foreign internship Continue lendo... 08/03/2019 21:00:00 First-class air travel is in decline Executives are flying business class; plutocrats are taking private jets Continue lendo... 08/03/2019 21:00:00 Foreign internship Continue lendo... 28/02/2019 12:42:15 “Repurposing” off-patent drugs offers big hopes of new treatments But governments need to give companies incentives to invest in them Continue lendo... 22/02/2019 21:00:00 More children around the world are being taught in English, often badly If children or teachers do not understand the language of instruction, they cannot learn or teach properly Continue lendo... 15/02/2019 22:00:00 An ageing world needs more resourceful robots Rather than take people’s jobs, machines will help care for them in their old age Continue lendo... 08/02/2019 22:00:00 Electricity does not change poor lives as much as was thought Getting a power connection to the poorest of the poor may be the wrong priority for a cash-strapped government Continue lendo... 08/02/2019 22:00:00 Night-time satellite imagery can measure electricity provision In India, the night sky follows an electoral timetable Continue lendo... 01/02/2019 22:00:00 Thanks to education, global fertility could fall faster than expected The world’s population in 2100 could be no higher than it is today Continue lendo... 25/01/2019 22:00:00 Few sports are doing enough to protect athletes from brain damage Small rule changes can reduce concussions in rugby and American football Continue lendo... 18/01/2019 22:00:00 How chicken became the rich world’s most popular meat The birds now count for 23bn of the 30bn land animals living on farms Continue lendo... 11/01/2019 22:00:00 Missionaries from the global south try to save the godless West Preachers from poor countries are targeting the rich world Continue lendo... 04/01/2019 22:00:00 Efforts to make buildings greener are not working Rules on “zero energy” buildings do not go far enough Continue lendo... 30/12/2018 22:00:00 The Economist’s ten most popular articles of 2018 The pieces which most caught our readers’ attention Continue lendo... 24/12/2018 22:00:00 The Economist’s editors pick the ten covers that define 2018 News, events and trends to sum up the year, as seen on the cover of The Economist Continue lendo... 21/12/2018 22:00:00 Gradually, nervously, courts are granting rights to animals Chimpanzees and elephants first Continue lendo... 14/12/2018 22:00:00 Why so little is done to help new mums cope Public-health systems focus on babies but often neglect their mothers Continue lendo... 07/12/2018 22:00:00 Can the world stop genocide? As the UN convention against genocide turns 70, its failures are tragically apparent Continue lendo... 30/11/2018 22:00:00 Indigenous peoples across the world no longer seem doomed to extinction The first of three articles explains why Continue lendo... 30/11/2018 22:00:00 Why New Zealand’s Maori do better than Australia’s Aboriginals The third in a series of articles on indigenous peoples Continue lendo... 30/11/2018 22:00:00 Brazilian Indians are learning to live with the state The second in a series of articles on indigenous peoples Continue lendo... 23/11/2018 22:00:00 Suicide is declining almost everywhere Thank urbanisation, greater freedom and some helpful policies Continue lendo... 23/11/2018 22:00:00 Japanese volunteers curb suicide, with kindness and pancakes Gradually, governments are beginning to provide some support Continue lendo... 16/11/2018 22:00:00 In poor countries technology can make big improvements to education Teachers are often unqualified, ignorant or absent; tablets show up and work Continue lendo... 07/11/2018 22:00:00 Clerical sexual-abuse scandals strengthen the pope’s conservative critics Launched in optimism, Francis’s papacy is bogged down in infighting and scandals Continue lendo... 02/11/2018 21:00:00 Jew-hatred keeps mutating to survive Lessons from the Pittsburgh massacre Continue lendo... 26/10/2018 21:00:00 How to dispose of human waste on Mount Everest Unsavoury problems at 18,000 feet Continue lendo... 26/10/2018 21:00:00 The backlash against overtourism More people are travelling, and many are visiting the same places Continue lendo... 19/10/2018 21:00:00 How farmers cope with shortages of workers And why strawberries have become as big as plums Continue lendo... 19/10/2018 21:00:00 Why farm-worker migration is booming Hostility to migrants is on the rise, but farm hands are still voting with their feet Continue lendo... 16/10/2018 21:00:00 The UN Human Rights Council’s lousy election The election of human-rights abusers to the UN’s human-rights body plays into President Trump’s hands Continue lendo... 11/10/2018 11:49:31 The Nobel committee shines a spotlight on rape in conflict An evil that is more lamented than understood Continue lendo... 05/10/2018 21:00:00 Parents worry more about bullying than anything else Around the world, schools and governments are converging on ways of tackling it Continue lendo... 04/10/2018 21:00:00 The 2018 Nobel peace prize is awarded to a surgeon and a former slave Two campaigners fighting against rape as a weapon of war have shone a light on a horrible tactic Continue lendo... 04/10/2018 11:43:30 The school bully has moved online and is following children home Teachers and parents struggle to recognise the problem or to solve it Continue lendo... 28/09/2018 21:00:00 Selling citizenship is big business—and controversial It is easy money for small countries, but it also attracts criminals Continue lendo... 27/09/2018 11:50:51 How the United Arab Emirates became an oasis for tax evaders Set up a company, shield your income from prying eyes Continue lendo... 20/09/2018 11:46:24 In Hong Kong, common sense keeps lives safe in a typhoon But the government still faces flak for its handling of Mangkhut Continue lendo... 20/09/2018 11:46:24 Storms in America and the Pacific are evidence of climate change Governments are getting a bit better at dealing with threats like Hurricane Florence and Typhoon Mangkhut Continue lendo... 14/09/2018 21:00:00 California leads subnational efforts to curb climate change Local authorities and companies are crucial if global carbon-emissions targets are to be met Continue lendo... 06/09/2018 11:48:42 One solution to a congested city is to build a new one If geography is the constraint, why not try somewhere easier? Continue lendo... 06/09/2018 11:48:42 People say they hate traffic jams, but are oddly tolerant of them In the most congested cities, talking about traffic jams becomes an obsession; ending them seems not to Continue lendo... 31/08/2018 21:00:00 Loneliness is a serious public-health problem The lonely are not just sadder; they are unhealthier and die younger. What can be done? Continue lendo... 24/08/2018 21:00:00 Air-conditioners do great good, but at a high environmental cost The rapid growth in their use makes it urgent to limit the damage Continue lendo... 17/08/2018 21:00:00 The global arms trade is booming. Buyers are spoiled for choice Increased competition between suppliers means buyers have the upper hand Continue lendo... 17/08/2018 21:00:00 A UN treaty to regulate the global arms trade has little impact Some big arms-exporting countries have not ratified it Continue lendo... 09/08/2018 11:49:55 Summer camps entertain, educate and give kids a competitive edge Snag: only the affluent can afford them Continue lendo... 09/08/2018 11:49:55 Long summer holidays are bad for children, especially the poor Many parents also find them a struggle Continue lendo... 02/08/2018 13:07:10 Countries team up to save the liberal order from Donald Trump As America retreats from global leadership, coalitions of the like-minded try to limit the damage Continue lendo... 27/07/2018 21:00:00 “Sin” taxes—eg, on tobacco—are less efficient than they look But they do help improve public health Continue lendo... 19/07/2018 11:55:40 Concern about “sexualised” children often misses the point The root of the problem is not how society treats its young, but the way it treats women Continue lendo... 12/07/2018 11:47:50 The welfare state needs updating Its designers did not foresee ageing populations, mass immigration or the gig economy Continue lendo... 05/07/2018 11:57:17 North Korea presents nuclear disarmament’s biggest challenge yet Precedents, from Iraq to the former Soviet Union, offer only very limited lessons Continue lendo... 05/07/2018 11:57:17 How Iraq was deprived of its weapons of mass destruction The world’s great powers were united behind the effort to tame Saddam Hussein. Kim Jong Un may be luckier Continue lendo... 28/06/2018 13:21:36 Award Continue lendo... 28/06/2018 13:21:36 Hospitals are learning from industry how to cut medical errors Industry and behavioural science may both have things to teach doctors Continue lendo... 21/06/2018 11:47:58 Public transport is in decline in many wealthy cities Blame remote working, Uber, cheap car loans and the internet Continue lendo... 14/06/2018 12:09:16 After decades of triumph, democracy is losing ground What is behind the reversal? Continue lendo... 08/06/2018 21:00:00 What makes a country good at football? Wealth, size and interest in football explain almost half of countries’ international performance. The rest can be taught Continue lendo... 01/06/2018 21:00:00 Can “effective altruism” maximise the bang for each charitable buck? A growing social movement is trying to bring scientific rigour to philanthropy Continue lendo... 31/05/2018 12:02:43 To help save the world, become a banker not a doctor Better than the obvious choices may be a lucrative job, allowing generous charitable gifts Continue lendo... 25/05/2018 21:00:00 Government data are ever more important to economic research That is better for some economists than others Continue lendo... 24/05/2018 11:49:17 Plunging response rates to household surveys worry policymakers They have to rely more on other sources of data Continue lendo... 18/05/2018 21:00:00 How global university rankings are changing higher education They favour research over teaching and the sciences over the arts Continue lendo... 10/05/2018 11:54:48 Bans on paying for human blood distort a vital global market The market in life-saving blood-plasma products depends on Americans who are paid for it Continue lendo... 10/05/2018 11:54:48 America’s booming blood-plasma industry Paid-for plasma is both less exploitative than often recognised, and invaluable Continue lendo... 04/05/2018 21:00:00 Many countries suffer from shrinking working-age populations There are things they can do to mitigate the dangers Continue lendo...
22/08/2019 11:44:01 The poor, who most need insurance, are least likely to have it Mobile phones and innovative firms can help Continue lendo...
16/08/2019 21:00:00 The global gag on free speech is tightening In both democracies and dictatorships, it is getting harder to speak up Continue lendo...
09/08/2019 20:00:00 How to curb the trade in endangered species A triennial summit in Geneva has little progress to celebrate Continue lendo...
31/07/2019 21:00:00 Are Western democracies becoming ungovernable? Politicians sometimes say so, but mean different things in different countries Continue lendo...
26/07/2019 21:00:00 Parliaments get facelifts; but it is politics that really needs one Renovations give parliamentarians an opportunity to shore up democracy. Will they take it? Continue lendo...
17/07/2019 21:00:00 Space law is inadequate for the boom in human activity there The law has big gaps. Who is liable for space debris? And is space mining even legal? Continue lendo...
11/07/2019 11:51:14 Why are happy people voting for angry parties? The rise of populism comes at a time when people say they are feeling fine Continue lendo...
09/07/2019 21:00:00 Children make parents happy, after all Particularly so when they are aged under ten Continue lendo...
05/07/2019 21:00:00 A brief history—and future—of credit scores They can transform an economy. But they are only as robust as the data underlying them Continue lendo...
28/06/2019 21:00:00 The Gulf of Guinea is now the world’s worst piracy hotspot The tricks that baffled buccaneers off Somalia and South-East Asia may not help in west Africa Continue lendo...
21/06/2019 21:00:00 Pet-ownership is booming across the world It seems not to be doing the owners as much good as they think Continue lendo...
14/06/2019 21:00:00 Air-traffic control is a mess Costly old systems cannot cope with congestion in the sky. Vested interests block reform Continue lendo...
07/06/2019 21:00:00 Magic mushrooms, illegal in most places, may have therapeutic uses The active ingredient, psilocybin, offers hope in treating depression Continue lendo...
07/06/2019 21:00:00 Psychedelic tourism is a niche but growing market A “mushroom journey” is for some the trip of a lifetime Continue lendo...
29/05/2019 21:00:00 Zambia cuts malaria fatalities, but not the number of cases Its aim of becoming the first malaria-free country in sub-Saharan Africa by 2021 looks very ambitious Continue lendo...
29/05/2019 21:00:00 Malaria is fighting back against efforts to eliminate it In Africa cases are as frequent as ever; in South-East Asia drug-resistant strains are appearing Continue lendo...
23/05/2019 11:52:01 How climate change can fuel wars Droughts are already making conflict more likely. As the world gets hotter, mayhem could spread Continue lendo...
17/05/2019 21:00:00 The boundaries between politics and stand-up comedy are crumbling Comics are running for office; politicians are trying to be funny Continue lendo...
09/05/2019 11:54:18 What Caster Semenya’s case means for women’s sport A very specific ruling for a very special runner has implications far beyond athletics Continue lendo...
03/05/2019 21:00:00 Global meat-eating is on the rise, bringing surprising benefits As Africans get richer, they will eat more meat and live longer, healthier lives Continue lendo...
27/04/2019 21:00:00 Military spending around the world is booming America and China are committing vast sums to their armed forces Continue lendo...
26/04/2019 21:00:00 How monarchies survive modernity As Japan’s emperor hands over to his son and the Thai king is crowned, monarchies are thriving Continue lendo...
17/04/2019 11:54:00 Sudan and Algeria overthrow despots but not their political systems Both could end up with new rulers much like the old ones Continue lendo...
17/04/2019 11:54:00 How to predict when a despot will fall The economy matters, but so do history and the weather Continue lendo...
12/04/2019 21:00:00 Kidney donors are wanted, dead or alive Since there are not enough of either kind, donation needs to be better organised Continue lendo...
04/04/2019 11:45:40 Why governments move civil servants out of national capitals They want to unclog cities, save money and smooth regional inequality Continue lendo...
28/03/2019 12:42:12 The clamour to return artefacts taken by colonialists Former colonies want their cultural treasures back Continue lendo...
28/03/2019 12:42:11 How Sackler cash made museums a target for protests Woke art-lovers prefer galleries untainted by donors they dislike Continue lendo...
21/03/2019 12:41:10 Why white nationalist terrorism is a global threat The Christchurch killer acted alone but followed a terrifying trend Continue lendo...
20/03/2019 21:00:00 Turkey and New Zealand row over the Christchurch massacre Turkey’s President Erdogan sees political benefits in blaming the killings on global Islamophobia Continue lendo...
15/03/2019 21:00:00 What disasters reveal about mental-health care Counselling by amateurs costs little and can work wonders Continue lendo...
08/03/2019 21:00:00 First-class air travel is in decline Executives are flying business class; plutocrats are taking private jets Continue lendo...
28/02/2019 12:42:15 “Repurposing” off-patent drugs offers big hopes of new treatments But governments need to give companies incentives to invest in them Continue lendo...
22/02/2019 21:00:00 More children around the world are being taught in English, often badly If children or teachers do not understand the language of instruction, they cannot learn or teach properly Continue lendo...
15/02/2019 22:00:00 An ageing world needs more resourceful robots Rather than take people’s jobs, machines will help care for them in their old age Continue lendo...
08/02/2019 22:00:00 Electricity does not change poor lives as much as was thought Getting a power connection to the poorest of the poor may be the wrong priority for a cash-strapped government Continue lendo...
08/02/2019 22:00:00 Night-time satellite imagery can measure electricity provision In India, the night sky follows an electoral timetable Continue lendo...
01/02/2019 22:00:00 Thanks to education, global fertility could fall faster than expected The world’s population in 2100 could be no higher than it is today Continue lendo...
25/01/2019 22:00:00 Few sports are doing enough to protect athletes from brain damage Small rule changes can reduce concussions in rugby and American football Continue lendo...
18/01/2019 22:00:00 How chicken became the rich world’s most popular meat The birds now count for 23bn of the 30bn land animals living on farms Continue lendo...
11/01/2019 22:00:00 Missionaries from the global south try to save the godless West Preachers from poor countries are targeting the rich world Continue lendo...
04/01/2019 22:00:00 Efforts to make buildings greener are not working Rules on “zero energy” buildings do not go far enough Continue lendo...
30/12/2018 22:00:00 The Economist’s ten most popular articles of 2018 The pieces which most caught our readers’ attention Continue lendo...
24/12/2018 22:00:00 The Economist’s editors pick the ten covers that define 2018 News, events and trends to sum up the year, as seen on the cover of The Economist Continue lendo...
21/12/2018 22:00:00 Gradually, nervously, courts are granting rights to animals Chimpanzees and elephants first Continue lendo...
14/12/2018 22:00:00 Why so little is done to help new mums cope Public-health systems focus on babies but often neglect their mothers Continue lendo...
07/12/2018 22:00:00 Can the world stop genocide? As the UN convention against genocide turns 70, its failures are tragically apparent Continue lendo...
30/11/2018 22:00:00 Indigenous peoples across the world no longer seem doomed to extinction The first of three articles explains why Continue lendo...
30/11/2018 22:00:00 Why New Zealand’s Maori do better than Australia’s Aboriginals The third in a series of articles on indigenous peoples Continue lendo...
30/11/2018 22:00:00 Brazilian Indians are learning to live with the state The second in a series of articles on indigenous peoples Continue lendo...
23/11/2018 22:00:00 Suicide is declining almost everywhere Thank urbanisation, greater freedom and some helpful policies Continue lendo...
23/11/2018 22:00:00 Japanese volunteers curb suicide, with kindness and pancakes Gradually, governments are beginning to provide some support Continue lendo...
16/11/2018 22:00:00 In poor countries technology can make big improvements to education Teachers are often unqualified, ignorant or absent; tablets show up and work Continue lendo...
07/11/2018 22:00:00 Clerical sexual-abuse scandals strengthen the pope’s conservative critics Launched in optimism, Francis’s papacy is bogged down in infighting and scandals Continue lendo...
02/11/2018 21:00:00 Jew-hatred keeps mutating to survive Lessons from the Pittsburgh massacre Continue lendo...
26/10/2018 21:00:00 How to dispose of human waste on Mount Everest Unsavoury problems at 18,000 feet Continue lendo...
26/10/2018 21:00:00 The backlash against overtourism More people are travelling, and many are visiting the same places Continue lendo...
19/10/2018 21:00:00 How farmers cope with shortages of workers And why strawberries have become as big as plums Continue lendo...
19/10/2018 21:00:00 Why farm-worker migration is booming Hostility to migrants is on the rise, but farm hands are still voting with their feet Continue lendo...
16/10/2018 21:00:00 The UN Human Rights Council’s lousy election The election of human-rights abusers to the UN’s human-rights body plays into President Trump’s hands Continue lendo...
11/10/2018 11:49:31 The Nobel committee shines a spotlight on rape in conflict An evil that is more lamented than understood Continue lendo...
05/10/2018 21:00:00 Parents worry more about bullying than anything else Around the world, schools and governments are converging on ways of tackling it Continue lendo...
04/10/2018 21:00:00 The 2018 Nobel peace prize is awarded to a surgeon and a former slave Two campaigners fighting against rape as a weapon of war have shone a light on a horrible tactic Continue lendo...
04/10/2018 11:43:30 The school bully has moved online and is following children home Teachers and parents struggle to recognise the problem or to solve it Continue lendo...
28/09/2018 21:00:00 Selling citizenship is big business—and controversial It is easy money for small countries, but it also attracts criminals Continue lendo...
27/09/2018 11:50:51 How the United Arab Emirates became an oasis for tax evaders Set up a company, shield your income from prying eyes Continue lendo...
20/09/2018 11:46:24 In Hong Kong, common sense keeps lives safe in a typhoon But the government still faces flak for its handling of Mangkhut Continue lendo...
20/09/2018 11:46:24 Storms in America and the Pacific are evidence of climate change Governments are getting a bit better at dealing with threats like Hurricane Florence and Typhoon Mangkhut Continue lendo...
14/09/2018 21:00:00 California leads subnational efforts to curb climate change Local authorities and companies are crucial if global carbon-emissions targets are to be met Continue lendo...
06/09/2018 11:48:42 One solution to a congested city is to build a new one If geography is the constraint, why not try somewhere easier? Continue lendo...
06/09/2018 11:48:42 People say they hate traffic jams, but are oddly tolerant of them In the most congested cities, talking about traffic jams becomes an obsession; ending them seems not to Continue lendo...
31/08/2018 21:00:00 Loneliness is a serious public-health problem The lonely are not just sadder; they are unhealthier and die younger. What can be done? Continue lendo...
24/08/2018 21:00:00 Air-conditioners do great good, but at a high environmental cost The rapid growth in their use makes it urgent to limit the damage Continue lendo...
17/08/2018 21:00:00 The global arms trade is booming. Buyers are spoiled for choice Increased competition between suppliers means buyers have the upper hand Continue lendo...
17/08/2018 21:00:00 A UN treaty to regulate the global arms trade has little impact Some big arms-exporting countries have not ratified it Continue lendo...
09/08/2018 11:49:55 Summer camps entertain, educate and give kids a competitive edge Snag: only the affluent can afford them Continue lendo...
09/08/2018 11:49:55 Long summer holidays are bad for children, especially the poor Many parents also find them a struggle Continue lendo...
02/08/2018 13:07:10 Countries team up to save the liberal order from Donald Trump As America retreats from global leadership, coalitions of the like-minded try to limit the damage Continue lendo...
27/07/2018 21:00:00 “Sin” taxes—eg, on tobacco—are less efficient than they look But they do help improve public health Continue lendo...
19/07/2018 11:55:40 Concern about “sexualised” children often misses the point The root of the problem is not how society treats its young, but the way it treats women Continue lendo...
12/07/2018 11:47:50 The welfare state needs updating Its designers did not foresee ageing populations, mass immigration or the gig economy Continue lendo...
05/07/2018 11:57:17 North Korea presents nuclear disarmament’s biggest challenge yet Precedents, from Iraq to the former Soviet Union, offer only very limited lessons Continue lendo...
05/07/2018 11:57:17 How Iraq was deprived of its weapons of mass destruction The world’s great powers were united behind the effort to tame Saddam Hussein. Kim Jong Un may be luckier Continue lendo...
28/06/2018 13:21:36 Hospitals are learning from industry how to cut medical errors Industry and behavioural science may both have things to teach doctors Continue lendo...
21/06/2018 11:47:58 Public transport is in decline in many wealthy cities Blame remote working, Uber, cheap car loans and the internet Continue lendo...
14/06/2018 12:09:16 After decades of triumph, democracy is losing ground What is behind the reversal? Continue lendo...
08/06/2018 21:00:00 What makes a country good at football? Wealth, size and interest in football explain almost half of countries’ international performance. The rest can be taught Continue lendo...
01/06/2018 21:00:00 Can “effective altruism” maximise the bang for each charitable buck? A growing social movement is trying to bring scientific rigour to philanthropy Continue lendo...
31/05/2018 12:02:43 To help save the world, become a banker not a doctor Better than the obvious choices may be a lucrative job, allowing generous charitable gifts Continue lendo...
25/05/2018 21:00:00 Government data are ever more important to economic research That is better for some economists than others Continue lendo...
24/05/2018 11:49:17 Plunging response rates to household surveys worry policymakers They have to rely more on other sources of data Continue lendo...
18/05/2018 21:00:00 How global university rankings are changing higher education They favour research over teaching and the sciences over the arts Continue lendo...
10/05/2018 11:54:48 Bans on paying for human blood distort a vital global market The market in life-saving blood-plasma products depends on Americans who are paid for it Continue lendo...
10/05/2018 11:54:48 America’s booming blood-plasma industry Paid-for plasma is both less exploitative than often recognised, and invaluable Continue lendo...
04/05/2018 21:00:00 Many countries suffer from shrinking working-age populations There are things they can do to mitigate the dangers Continue lendo...