The COVID-19 pandemic is inflicting high and rising human costs worldwide, and the necessary protection measures are severely impacting economic activity. As a result of the pandemic, the global ...

The months after the release of the June 2020 World Economic Outlook (WEO) Update have offered a glimpse of how difficult rekindling economic activity will be while the pandemic surges. During May and ...

The Palestinian Jafra Dabke Team performs a traditional dabke dance while wearing latex gloves and surgical masks, in Tarqumya, a town in the occupied West Bank. Photograph by Hazem Bader, AFP/Getty ...