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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…
Robin Niblett

Transatlantic Trade-Offs

LONDON – Almost two decades after the idea was first mooted, the United States and the European Union agreed last week to begin negotiating …
Howard Davies

Financial Regulators’ Global Variety Show

PARIS – In the early phases of the financial crisis, it was fashionable to argue that the United States’ system of regulation needed a funda…
Robert Skidelsky

The Rise of the Robots

LONDON – What impact will automation – the so-called “rise of the robots” – have on wages and employment over the coming decades? Nowadays, …

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Joseph E. Stiglitz Jun. 3, 2013

East Asia’s Lessons for Africa

NEW YORK – On June 1-3, Japan is hosting the fifth meeting of TICAD, the Tokyo International Cooperation on African Development. The meeting…
Sanou Mbaye May 21, 2013

Africa’s French Roadblock

DAKAR – In recent years, China and Africa have formed one of the modern era’s most successful economic and trade partnerships. China benefit…
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…
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…
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’…
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 …
Jaswant Singh Mar. 19, 2013

Crumbling BRICS

NEW DELHI – In 2001, when Jim O’Neill of Goldman Sachs coined the acronym BRIC to refer to Brazil, Russia, India, and China, the world had h…
Mohamed A. El-Erian Feb. 7, 2013

Egypt’s Economic Siren

NEWPORT BEACH – Facing a turbulent political situation and recurrent street protests, Egypt’s political elite would be well advised to focus…
Kenneth Rogoff Dec. 4, 2012

Innovation Crisis or Financial Crisis?

CAMBRIDGE – As one year of sluggish growth spills into the next, there is growing debate about what to expect over the coming decades. Was t…
Jeffrey D. Sachs Nov. 26, 2012

Polluters Must Pay

NEW YORK – When BP and its drilling partners caused the Deepwater Horizon oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico in 2010, the United States governm…

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