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Wednesday 14/March/2018 15:20 PM

The dollar’s doldrums

Donald Trump’s first year as US president has been, if nothing else, a bounteous source of surprises. One of the big ones in the circles I frequent is...

Wednesday 14/March/2018 15:02 PM

Vaccinating against poverty

For most people, the choice between a life-threatening disease and a lifetime of crippling debt is no choice at all. Yet every year, hundreds of millions of...

Tuesday 13/March/2018 15:19 PM

Germany’s dangerous political marriage

More than five months after Germany’s federal election last September, a new grand coalition government – comprising Chancellor Angela Merkel’s...

Tuesday 13/March/2018 15:02 PM

Could the Trump-Kim summit succeed?

Last year, North Korea’s Kim Jong-un and US President Donald Trump were hurling kindergarten insults at each other – “Rocket Man is on a suicide...

Tuesday 13/March/2018 14:48 PM

A new approach to infrastructure finance

Lawmakers in the United States have introduced legislation that, if enacted, would create a new development finance institution (DFI) to replace the...