economic development

The country gave birth to the Guggenheim Museum Bilbao, an urban renewal gem that attracts a million visits a year. But it’s also home to plenty of white elephants.

Residents of Catalonia claim that Spain’s central government take too much of their tax money and have made decisions that hurt the region.

Twenty-two-year-old Roman Chukov is the "head expert" of the Moscow City Investment Agency. He has the unenviable task of drawing international investors and companies to Russia.

The region's real estate ambitions have often been at odds with its resource limitations, notably its water supply.

When regional economic disparities take hold, they tend to stick.

Rousseff will have to find a way to bring the business-minded population that voted for her opponent to the side of her target voters—some 40 million who were pulled out of poverty by her party over the last decade.