United Nations

Low commodity prices and China's slowdown cloud outlook for emerging economies

After a year of efforts, Libya's dialogue has stalled

Lower commodity prices and slowing growth risk reversing earlier gains as the focus turns to sustainable development

The UN has agreed a new set of goals to replace the Millenium Development Goals, but the new ones seem overly ambitious

The ruling may shore up Morales's re-election ambitions, but is a further blow to Bachelet's plummeting popularity

Europe's migrant problems have focussed international attention on the aid response to Syria's refugee crisis

Civil nuclear power generation will remain constrained by high costs and competition from cheap oil and gas

Debt relief proposals could boost socioeconomic sustainability, but international buy-in will be hard to achieve