Vaccine nationalism is escalating in a world where Covid-19 is everywhere, yet the life-saving medicines needed to fight it are scarce. The temptation to hoard doses is rising, but that would prolong the pandemic by driving an even bigger wedge between leaders and laggards. Without a focus on increasing supply and sharing doses across borders, the virus will be with ...

The arrival of the pandemic forced retailers and consumer brands to spend much of 2020 solving immediate problems. Many had to take urgent steps to protect their liquidity. Some had to hire thousands of workers to support booming demand. Others had to figure out how to get toilet paper on shelves, even if it meant buying it from a hotel ...

India’s federal budget on Monday will be a much tougher balancing act than New Delhi’s regular annual fiscal trapeze. For one thing, the pandemic has upset business-as-usual calculations of how much to spend, on what, and how to finance it. For another, an impatience to make up for lost time has to be weighed against a shrinking of policy space ...