Global explainers from The Daily World, syndicated across the Daily Network.
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The World Bank lends billions of dollars a year to developing countries, but its role is more complicated and more contested than its name suggests.
The Daily World · 21 May 2026
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Africa is on course to be home to more than a quarter of the world's population by mid-century, a shift that will reshape global economics, politics, and migration.
The Daily World · 19 May 2026
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Solar and wind power are now the cheapest sources of new electricity on earth, but the grid they plug into was built for a different era.
The Daily World · 11 May 2026
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Hydrogen is the universe's most abundant element and could be a zero-carbon fuel, but closing the gap between that promise and commercial reality has proved far harder than expected.
The Daily World · 5 May 2026
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No single country makes a chip from scratch, and the decades-long process of specialisation that created that interdependence is now a source of strategic anxiety.
The Daily World · 3 May 2026
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Behind every home insurance premium is a global system of risk transfer that is under growing strain as natural disasters become more frequent and severe.
The Daily World · 1 May 2026
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When a country runs out of foreign currency and cannot pay its debts, the IMF is usually the lender of last resort, and its conditions shape the lives of millions.
The Daily World · 29 April 2026
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Bacteria are evolving faster than the pipeline of new drugs can keep pace, and the consequences for routine surgery and infection treatment are already visible.
The Daily World · 25 April 2026
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Forests absorb carbon, regulate rainfall, and sustain biodiversity, but they sit on land that economies have always wanted for something else.
The Daily World · 23 April 2026
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Decades of predictions about the end of the oil age have not arrived, and understanding why reveals the true scale of the energy transition ahead.
The Daily World · 17 April 2026
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The global convention of pricing oil in US dollars has shaped geopolitics, exchange rates, and the power of the American economy for more than half a century.
The Daily World · 13 April 2026
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Australia is one of the world's leading beef exporters, and the complex web of trade rules, biosecurity regimes, and competing suppliers that governs the global meat trade has direct consequences for Australian farmers.
The Daily World · 11 April 2026
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The ten-nation Association of Southeast Asian Nations is the economic and diplomatic architecture underpinning Australia's most important regional neighbourhood.
The Daily World · 7 April 2026
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Gradual ocean rise is not a future threat for some communities; it is already reshaping coastlines, flooding homes, and forcing governments to consider relocating entire populations.
The Daily World · 3 April 2026
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Thousands of small satellites now circle the Earth in low orbit, transforming both how militaries see the battlefield and how forecasters predict your weekend weather.
The Daily World · 1 April 2026
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Nuclear energy generates a significant share of the world's electricity with almost no direct carbon emissions, yet it remains one of the most contested power sources on the planet.
The Daily World · 28 March 2026
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A stock market index appears daily in the news as a number going up or down, but what it measures, and what it misses, is less well understood.
The Daily World · 18 March 2026
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Migration is one of the oldest human behaviours and one of the most misunderstood, driven far more by labour demand and family ties than by crisis alone.
The Daily World · 14 March 2026
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The pandemic exposed how fragile the world's just-in-time logistics networks really were, and countries are still reshaping them today.
The Daily World · 4 March 2026
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Three private companies issue judgements that affect how much every government on earth pays to borrow money, yet most people have never heard of them.
The Daily World · 25 February 2026
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India now has more people than any other country and an economy growing faster than almost any other, yet its path to great-power status is neither straight nor guaranteed.
The Daily World · 23 February 2026
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For the first time in human history, the number of older people is outpacing the number of children, and the economic consequences are only beginning to show.
The Daily World · 21 February 2026
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Australia is one of the world's largest LNG exporters, yet most Australians could not explain what LNG is or how it reaches customers across Asia.
The Daily World · 13 February 2026
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Central banks raising rates in Washington and Frankfurt can make groceries more expensive in Australia, through a chain of effects that is less obvious than it first appears.
The Daily World · 3 February 2026
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