An Israeli airstrike late Sunday night started a fire in a camp for displaced Palestinians in Rafah, which killed at least 45 people and injured another 200, according to the Gaza Health Ministry.

Relieved of the need to keep its currency afloat, the central bank could focus on addressing the country’s worsening foreign debt crisis. Laos posted an annual average growth in its gross domestic ...

As has been the case for years, the cost of raising children continues to escalate (“The Price of Parenthood Is Growing Prohibitive. That’s Bad News for the Economy,” Cover Story, Aug. 30).

In the face of shrinking populations, many of the world's major economies are trying to engineer higher birth rates. Policymakers from South Korea, Japan and Italy, for example, have all adopted ...