The international economy, shaped by governments, businesses and other actors, touches the lives of everyone in the world. Pulitzer Center grantee stories tagged with “Economy” feature reporting that covers business, workers and the impact of global capitalism on people’s lives. Use the Pulitzer Center Lesson Builder to find and create lesson plans on the economy.
Forty-five minutes outside of Coimbatore, India, a Finnish company is producing a new kind of factory which will turn trash into a fashion business.
The economic disaster in Venezuela caused by low oil prices is also an environmental one.
In Venezuela, falling oil prices have crippled late President Hugo Chavez's social and economic programs.
Paraguay is the largest marijuana producing nation in South America, and it's government is fighting an old school war to stop the cultivation, sparking corruption and human rights abuses.
Cuban-Americans' relatives back home are acquiring expensive tastes.
Rwanda wants to create a culture of entrepreneurship. But can it really be done by decree?
Some of India’s textile factories are finding that improving their employees’ lives is good for the bottom line.
The country needs more than the absence of war—Syrians desperately need economic opportunity.
A new species of urban space—christened "pops" or "privately-owned public spaces"—has blossomed in London in recent years, and is now the future for one of its oldest docks.
This Easter, it seems all schoolchildren in Ireland were asked to write their own proclamation. Every town appears to be discovering the unique part it played in the Rising, or making one up.
Haiti's chicken industry fell apart in the late 1990s after lowered import tariffs hurt locals' ability to compete. Efforts are underway to revive the lost market.
The UN is revitalizing a program that gives wealthy nations carbon credits for investing in emission-reducing projects in developing nations; human rights protections are not yet part of the plan.
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