The Economist picks a country of the year. The winner is not the richest, happiest or most virtuous place, but the one that ...

At that point Africa will be home to approximately 2.5bn people, or around a quarter of humanity. And unless Africa finds a ...

Charlie Hebdo’s editor, and a survivor of the terrorist attack, Laurent Sourisseau, known as Riss, told The Economist that his paper has not changed, but that the mood towards satire has become ...

E VERY BUSINESS in Ukraine has a reference point. For Mykhailo Travetsky, a farmer in Pryluky, it was the first six weeks of the all-out invasion. As a Russian column stalled on a nearby highway, his ...