Companies could unlock at least $12 trillion in market opportunities by 2030 and create up to 380 million jobs by implementing a few key development goals, according to a study by a group that included global business and finance leaders.
Developed and developing countries alike should emphasize living standards over absolute growth as the best measure of economic performance, according to the organizers of the annual World Economic Forum.
US shale is getting in the way of a New Year's resolution by OPEC to cut production and boost the market.
Trust in governments, companies and the media plunged last year as ballots from the United States to the United Kingdom to the Philippines rocked political establishments and scandals hit business.
London homeowners are showing a "marked reluctance" to put their property up for sale, deterred by uncertainty caused by the looming Brexit process and an increase in tax, according to Rightmove, a British property website.
Editor's Note: China's top leaders wrapped up the three-day Central Economic Work Conference on Dec 16. At the tone-setting meeting, policy-makers mapped out policy stances for the country's economic development in 2017.
With six years to go before the 2022 Winter Olympics, Beijing has already demonstrated a sustainable approach to hosting the event by transforming an old steel mill into an organizational hub.
China will attempt to keep the coal market stable while continuing to shed capacity this year, according to the National Development and Reform Commission.
Anybody who lives in northern and central China must have terrible memories of the heavy smog that descended on the major cities there. The Ministry of Environmental Protection warned a total of 23 cities, including Beijing municipality, to issue red alerts on air pollution. Six of those cities are in Henan province.
1. China's Central Economic Work Conference said the country will continue to push supply-side structural reform in 2017. How do you assess China's achievement in that aspect so far? What are the most urgent tasks that China must carry out this year in order to push forward its structural reform?
Donald Trump has often ridiculed global warming and promised to withdraw the United States from the global accord signed in Paris in 2015. Yet despite the change of political weather in Washington, the captains of business and finance gathered in Davos this week will spend a lot of time talking about climate change - and how to make money from it.
From the rivers criss-crossing Eastern Europe to the Mediterranean ports of Greece and France, everyone is hunting for energy supplies.
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