Facing sanctions pressure and still reeling from war with Israel, Iran’s regime is tolerating women shunning hijabs, even as ...

Every year on November 20, World Children's Day is celebrated to commemorate the adoption of the 1959 Declaration on the Rights of the Child. This international agreement recognized numerous rights ...

Learn how financial contagion spreads economic crises globally, affecting markets and economies at domestic and international levels, and its historical examples.

A major review in Frontiers in Science highlights how tackling unsustainable food systems—reflected by our changing food ...

The greatest threat to stability today is not ideology or invasion, but the collapse of political legitimacy.” .

As the global economy regained its footing after the 2007 recession and financial crises in Europe, the anticipated normalization of monetary policy by the United States is revealing cracks in some ...

In 2025, TTD faced crises and controversies while implementing reforms and enhancing services amid ongoing investigations and ...

The story of immigration in America today is a tale of two crises. At the top of the public’s mind is crisis number one. Last year, along our southern border, more than 2.5 million undocumented ...

The Economic Issues series aims to make available to a broad readership of nonspecialists some of the economic research being produced on topical issues by IMF staff. The series draws mainly from IMF ...

Research has revealed several facts about financial crises based on historical data. Crises are rare events that are associated with severe recessions that are typically deeper than normal recessions.

Update—July 19, 2022: With a catastrophic famine looming on the horizon across East Africa, the International Rescue Committee (IRC) has released our first ever Crisis Alert update to our annual ...

Throughout the past month, the executives at my public relations agency have repeatedly been approached by members of the media for our opinions on the major missteps made by a variety of widely ...