Kiribati expanded social protection spending in response to COVID, drastically reducing poverty. Concurrently, an increase in untargeted social protection receipts has supported spending on goods that ...

Despite its undeniable contribution to the economy, the negative externalities generated by this volume of tourism in Spain ...

Sweltering heat on the East Coast tested the resiliency of America's largest power grid over the 4th of July holiday, just ...

Pigouvian taxation is the economic practice of levying charges on activities that generate negative externalities — costs imposed on third parties that market prices do not reflect — so that private ...

This Conceptual Analysis traces who pays for environmental footprints, focusing on the current US economic system and environmental regulatory regime. With some important exceptions, carbon, water, ...

UK-based consultancy Ricardo, part of the WSP Group, reports that EU-27 day-ahead power markets saw 1,223 negative-price hours in Q1 2026, more than double Q1 2025, driven mainly by Spain, Portugal, ...

As Homer tells us, Odysseus made an epic journey, against the odds, from Troy to his home in Ithaca. He visited many lands, but mostly dwelt with the nymph Calypso on her island. We can imagine that ...

In the lead-up to the May federal budget – now just a fortnight away – Treasurer Jim Chalmers has left the door open to winding back negative gearing, used by around 1.1 million investors for rental ...

The United States is on track to see negative net migration for the first time in at least five decades, according to CNN, as President Donald J. Trump fulfills his promise to end the migrant invasion ...

WSJ Buy Side is The Wall Street Journal’s research and commerce team. Our commerce content is distinct from our newsroom coverage. We earn a commission from some links in our articles. Learn more. You ...