French President Emmanuel Macron has suggested the imposition of a global taxation system in order to subsidise the green agenda to mitigate climate change. Speaking at the Summit for a New Global Financing Pact in Paris on Friday, Mr Macron argued that actions from individual governments would be insufficient to deal with the alleged armageddon set to descend upon the world and therefore a new international... 

While Western children’s lives and academic potential are being destroyed through social media use and nearly unlimited screen time, China is actively restricting TikTok and other social media platforms to benefit the development of their children, according to French neurologist and author Michel Desmurget. “You can already see a significant difference between OECD countries and Asian countries.... 

The international financial watchdog earlier estimated the recent trade rows had already cost the world economy about $700 billion or an 0.8 percent slump in global GDP, outlining the data in a soon-to-be-published annual report by the IMF. Chief of the International Monetary Fund Kristalina Georgieva has described the fearsome possibility of a repetition of the Great Depression, in light of today’s... 

A boy sifting through floating garbage as he collects recyclable items to sell. A new report shows that child poverty in Japan is at its highest level in the last three decades as critics rap Tokyo for failing to address the crisis. The child poverty rate increased to over 16 percent in 2012, Japan’s Welfare Ministry said in a report published on Tuesday. The figure marks the worst rate since the... 

The number of Americans who decided to renounce their citizenship in the second quarter of 2013 increased sixfold the same period in 2012, a number the federal government attributes to strict impending financial disclosure rules. The United States is the only country out of 34 in the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) that continues to tax citizens regardless of where they... 

America, The Land of Opportunity? Not Anymore... Is America the “land of opportunity”? Not so much. A new report from the Organization for Economic Co-Operation and Development (OECD) finds that social mobility between generations is dramatically lower in the U.S. than in many other developed countries. So if you want your children to climb the socioeconomic ladder higher than you did,...