Markets - PROJECT M

Is confidence in the US economy due to spontaneous optimism?

Financial markets seem convinced that the recent surge in business and consumer confidence in the US economy will soon be reflected in “hard” data, such as consumption and wages

Taxation: should robots pay their way?

As the robot revolution accelerates, doubts about how well this would work out continue to grow

Race with the machine: Insurance goes digital

Can voice-activated virtual assistants like Alexa conquer the insurance industry?

What’s happening with Chinese pensions?

China’s rising star seems to be fading as the nation’s economic growth is faltering, but the country is experiencing significant shifts

Something to smile about

Thailand has successfully created a healthcare system that delivers a good standard of medical coverage for all its inhabitants, regardless of their income

Pension reforms in aging Asia

What other nations can learn from Asia’s aging experience

The great transitioning

How former communist nations in eastern Europe and Russia reformed their pensions to tackle aging. Browse the Global Pension Atlas for a more global overview

China sheds its skin

As China transforms, a dramatically different economy is emerging, but it will still confront the same old demographic challenges

Europe’s retirement landscape

With two of the world’s oldest countries, Italy and Germany, at its center, Europe needs to tackle aging’s impact on the common notion of retirement. Find out how in the updated Global Pension Atlas

The end of abundance

Current economic troubles may only be the beginning for China as demographics begin to bite

Eduardo P. Banzon

Senior health specialist Asian development bank, formerly President and CEO of Philippine Health Insurance Corporation, PhilHealth, discusses how the rise of NCDs in Asia is closely intertwined with rapid aging

One step ahead in the pensions game

The UK home improvement retail giant has achieved the impossible: using an app, it has made pensions fun and interesting

The butterfly defect of globalization

Ian Goldin believes we're living through a New Renaissance. History shows it's up to us to determine whether this means triumph or disaster

Weighing up the global cost

“That which does not kill us, makes us stronger,” is a platitude often used in times of stress, but it’s simply untrue when it comes to non-communicable diseases. They weaken us with chronic and sometimes concurrent illnesses over many decades, then they kill

All hail the algocracy

Euler Hermes has released a report on the state of the automotive industry. Ludovic Subran, the chief economist and director for Economic Research sums up the findings

Mervyn King: How to prevent the next banking crisis

The former Bank of England governor argues that central banks must transform from lenders of last resort into “pawnbrokers for all seasons”