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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 …
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…
Paul R. Ehrlich

The Food Threat to Human Civilization

PALO ALTO – Humanity faces a growing complex of serious, highly interconnected environmental problems, including much-discussed challenges l…
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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Parag Khanna May 23, 2013

The Human City

SINGAPORE – The tangled web of international organizations that constitutes global governance has become so remote and ineffective that few …
Andrew Sheng, Xiao Geng May 22, 2013

The Night-Watchman State’s Last Shift

HONG KONG – Too often, debate about the relationship between the state and the market casts them as opposing forces locked in a zero-sum str…
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…
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…
Ana Palacio May 16, 2013

The Importance of Doing Business

MADRID – This month, an independent review panel is expected to release its findings regarding the World Bank’s Doing Business report. Specu…
Richard Cooper, Richard Dobbs May 14, 2013

China’s E-Tail Revolution

SHANGHAI – When you think about centers of technological innovation, Silicon Valley, Seattle, and Seoul are probably the first places that c…
Adeel Malik, Bassem Awadallah May 8, 2013

An Arab Marshall Plan

OXFORD – The wave of revolts that swept across the Arab world two years ago were fueled by demands for freedom, bread, and social justice. B…
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…
Rajeev Chandrasekhar May 4, 2013

Civilizing the City

BANGALORE – Half of humanity – 3.5 billion people – live in urban areas today. Our metropolises are the engines of growth for a global econo…

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