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Hans-Werner Sinn

The Collateral Damage of Europe’s Rescue

MUNICH – The eurozone is now in its sixth year of crisis – and of efforts by the European Central Bank and the international community to en…
Mahmoud Mohieldin

Getting Cities Right

WASHINGTON, DC – The developing world is experiencing rapid urbanization, with the number of city dwellers set to reach four billion in 2030…
Haruhiko Kuroda

India’s Growth Crossroads

MANILA – As the slowdown in the world’s major industrial economies drags on, growth in developing Asia is being affected. A serious burden w…
Anne-Marie Slaughter

The Coming Atlantic Century

PRINCETON – The United States is rising; Europe is stabilizing; and both are moving closer together. That was the principal message earlier …

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Mohamed A. El-Erian May 20, 2013

Reinvigorating Egypt’s Economy

NEWPORT BEACH – Some two years into Egypt’s grass-roots revolution, the country’s economy is in a worrisome downward spiral. A growing numbe…
Kanayo F. Nwanze May 18, 2013

Harnessing the Remittance Boom

ROME – For more than a decade, Asia’s economies have been on the move – and so have its people. The scale of migration from rural to urban a…
Erik Solheim May 16, 2013

A New Deal for Fragile States

PARIS – Today, roughly one-quarter of the world’s population lives in conflict-affected and fragile states. Despite vast sums of money spent…
Bill Gates May 6, 2013

The Problem with Poor Countries’ GDP

SEATTLE – Even in good financial times, development aid budgets are hardly overflowing. Government leaders and donors must make hard decisio…
Ike Okonta Apr. 30, 2013

Nigeria’s Poverty-Powered Insurgency

LAGOS – Nigerian security forces recently razed a northeastern fishing village, leaving almost 200 people dead and destroying some 2,000 hom…
Desmond Tutu Apr. 24, 2013

Vaccination’s Lifetime of Blessings

CAPE TOWN – A world in which our children and their children grow up free from the threat of polio and other preventable diseases is a dream…
Suniya Qureshi Apr. 19, 2013

Pakistan’s Winnable War on Polio

LAHORE – I grew up in Pakistan throughout the 1980’s and 1990’s, and my parents, like parents everywhere, wanted me to be fit and healthy an…
Brian McClendon Apr. 18, 2013

Cartography’s New Golden Age

MOUNTAIN VIEW, CALIFORNIA – Noé Diakubama, an emigrant from the Democratic Republic of Congo who now lives in Paris, is one of this century’…
Seth Berkley Apr. 12, 2013

Beating the Child Killers

GENEVA – Ask most people to name the two biggest causes of death among children, and they will most likely say malaria and HIV. In fact, it …
Dani Rodrik Apr. 10, 2013

What the World Needs from the BRICS

CAMBRIDGE – In 2001, Goldman Sachs’ Jim O’Neill famously coined the term BRIC to characterize the world’s four largest developing economies …

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