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Spend much time with economists around this time of year, and you will, eventually, get around to hearing about the dreadful inefficiency of exchanging...

How much is a child’s future success determined by innate intelligence? Economist James Heckman says it’s not what people think. He likes to ask...

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...

One might expect Russian President Vladimir Putin to take a victory lap after a lucky 2016. But at his traditional end-of-year press conference on Friday,...

Donald Trump's aides, understanding their leader, vie to be most ostentatious about calling his victory "historic." That claim deserves close...

What does the Venezuelan domestic payments crisis have in common with the death of the North American Free Trade Agreement, announced by Wilbur Ross, US...

Let’s be honest: no one knows what is happening in the world economy today. Recovery from the collapse of 2008 has been unexpectedly slow. Are we on the...

Africa has changed remarkably, and for the better, since I first worked as a young doctor in Angola some 20 years ago. But no change has been more obvious...

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...

Some climate activists worry that Donald Trump’s presidential election will be the death knell for the global environment. That’s almost certainly...