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Michael Spence warns that, without policy intervention, productivity gains could lead to a surge in inequality.
Diane Coyle urges policymakers to learn from nineteenth-century planners who built the public systems on which we still rely.
Kenneth Rogoff warns that turning monetary policy into a political theater will ultimately harm ordinary Americans.
Joseph E. Stiglitz, José Antonio Ocampo and Jayati Ghosh lament the G7’s decision to exempt US corporations from the global ...
Chukwumerije Okereke & Nnimmo Bassey warn that experimenting with speculative technologies on the continent is a grave act of ...
Nnimmo Bassey is Director of the Health of Mother Earth Foundation.
The root cause of nuclear proliferation is a state’s sense of insecurity or aspiration to increase its power and influence. Given these strategic motives and the lessons of recent history, it is ...
José Antonio Alonso, a member of the International Commission of Experts on Financing for Development, is Professor of Applied Economics at the Complutense University of Madrid and an expert member of ...
To ensure continued progress on development, the world needs a new model for international engagement, a clear agenda backed by sufficient resources, and mechanisms for ensuring coherence at a time of ...
Simply by surviving a brief war against two nuclear powers, the Islamic Republic can claim a kind of victory. But whether ordinary Iranians can do the same will depend on which strategy the leadership ...
Water scarcity, extreme heatwaves, and desertification are increasingly shaping everyday life in the Middle East and North ...
Timothy Snyder sees growing signs that America’s president seeks to turn the US military into a palace guard.