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Wednesday 01/February/2017 16:23 PM

Harnessing the politics of disruption

The United Kingdom’s vote to exit the European Union and Donald Trump’s election as US president exposed a deep generational divide. Cosmopolitan...

Wednesday 01/February/2017 15:17 PM

Trump's wall is about rage, not immigration

Just to be clear on President Donald Trump's agenda, he is currently jeopardising relations with the US's third-largest trading partner, a neighbour...

Wednesday 01/February/2017 14:48 PM

Is the deflation cycle over?

Until the global financial crisis of 2008-2009, deflation had all but disappeared as a concern for policymakers and investors in the advanced economies,...

Tuesday 31/January/2017 21:04 PM

Free WiFi for 1,000 Indian villages

Times of Oman designers depict a world around them through illustrations everyday, either to enhance the visual elements of a story or as a standalone...

Tuesday 31/January/2017 14:48 PM

A climate change economist sounds the alarm

Some people who study climate change believe that addressing it later -- when economic growth has made humanity wealthier -- would be better than taking...

Tuesday 31/January/2017 14:35 PM

Three surprises in 2017

Economic pundits traditionally offer their (traditionally inaccurate) New Year predictions at the beginning of January. But global conditions this year are...

Monday 30/January/2017 23:45 PM

Germany in the age of Trump

Donald Trump is now the 45th President of the United States, and in his inaugural address he made it clear to the assembled US establishment that his...

Monday 30/January/2017 22:20 PM

An unstable economic order?

The retreat of the advanced economies from the global economy – and, in the case of the United Kingdom, from regional trading arrangements – has...

Monday 30/January/2017 22:15 PM

Playing with economic matches

At this time last year, the International Monetary Fund reported disappointing global GDP growth of 3.1 per cent in 2015, and promised that growth would...