A new report, urging rich nations to give more climate aid to poorer ones, comes as Donald Trump’s election throws global climate talks into disarray.

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The head of the World Bank on what comes next after the U.S. election.

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Last week’s BRICS summit showed how the balance of global power increasingly eludes the West’s grasp.

Biden takes aim at a neurotoxin all around us that impedes brain development.

Treasury Secretary Janet L. Yellen said an agreement was close. She also rebuked China’s lending practices and called for more debt relief.

The threat of an escalating conflict between Israel and Iran has created an “extraordinarily precarious” global situation, sowing alarm about the potential economic fallout.

Many middle-income countries are left out of the deal, widening a gulf in access to critical medicines.

A Treasury official will call for greater transparency over emergency currency “swap” loans to struggling countries by China’s central bank.

More than 50 African leaders have gathered in Beijing for a summit aimed at projecting the influence of China’s leader, Xi Jinping, in the developing world.

Crushing obligations to foreign creditors that have few precedents have sapped numerous African nations of growth and stoked social instability.