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Chika Ezure faced gender bias from her own family when deciding to do a master's degree at Japan's top-ranked university.

Australia’s productivity growth has reverted to the same stagnant pattern as before the pandemic, according to the Productivity Commission’s latest quarterly report.

Population aging is a growing challenge for developed countries like Canada, with significant implications for health care and long-term care systems. In OECD (Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development) countries, the population of people aged 80 and above is projected to more than double by 2050, reaching 9.8 per cent…

The Labour MP Torsten Bell is widely considered to be a rising star of the party. His recent book, Great Britain? How We Get Our Future Back, provides a detailed description of what he sees as the key economic challenges facing the UK today and proposes a series of policy…

Axing the cap is the first step towards pulling children out of poverty. Could £2.5bn ever be better spent, asks Guardian columnist Polly Toynbee

Recent research showing the richest New Zealanders pay less tax than their counterparts in nine similar OECD countries raises, yet again, serious questions about wealth, equality and fairness.

Researchers say interventions could address key factors, such as smoking, but ‘structural changes’ also needed

After Kemi Badenoch’s comments on maternity pay, how does the UK compare with other countries?

UK’s 142-year history of coal-fired electricity ends as turbines at Ratcliffe-on-Soar plant in Nottinghamshire stop for good

Some households are doing it tougher due to high inflation and interest rates but conditions are about to improve, a Reserve Bank of Australia report says.

Exclusive: Experts pull out of health conferences run by Economist Impact after revelations of commercial links