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Today, infectious diseases race across the world, and one country’s health problem can affect the entire global economy. For these and other...
The first talk posted from TED2011, happening now in California: As a democratic revolution led by tech-empowered young people sweeps the Ar...
After 15 years in the British diplomatic corps, Carne Ross became a “freelance diplomat,” running a bold nonprofit that gives sm...
The world’s population will grow to 9 billion over the next 50 years — and only by raising the living standards of the worldR...
Hans Rosling writes: So it did happen! Just hours ago World Bank president did completely change the World Bank data policy. This story show...
Shereen El Feki explains the interplay between the Internet, economics and politics in the mesh of civilizations
Stats guru Hans Rosling writes to say the popular search engine, Google, is making 17 of the World Bank’s World Development Indicators...
Last week, Parag Khanna sat with the TED Blog to discuss no less than the political future of the world we live in. He works in the expansiv...
Many people think the lines on the map no longer matter, but Parag Khanna says they do. Using maps of the past and present, he explains the ...