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Monday 24/October/2016 14:51 PM

India's dangerous investment gap

India’s celebrated position as the world’s fastest-growing large economy conceals a dangerous weakness: Too few people seem to want to invest in the...

Monday 24/October/2016 14:04 PM

The free-trade miracle

Global free trade provides the greatest opportunity to improve human welfare over the next decade and a half. It has already helped lift more than a billion...

Monday 24/October/2016 13:46 PM

Taking North Korea seriously

We are living in dangerous and uncertain times. The United States is engaged in a bizarre and highly polarized presidential election. Its relationship with...

Sunday 23/October/2016 22:14 PM

United Nations Day

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...

Sunday 23/October/2016 15:16 PM

Why losing candidates should concede

If Donald Trump loses the election and doesn’t concede, it won’t violate the US Constitution. But it would break a tradition of concession that dates...

Sunday 23/October/2016 14:43 PM

What’s blocking gender equality?

One year ago, the United Nations adopted the 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), one of which aims for true gender equality by 2030. Empowering women...

Sunday 23/October/2016 14:24 PM

Protectionist creeps

Prospects for growth in global trade in 2016 and 2017 have been downgraded again. The World Trade Organisation (WTO) now expects that trade this year will...

Sunday 23/October/2016 14:04 PM

The case for UK import substitution

The most dramatic economic effect of the United Kingdom’s Brexit vote has been the collapse of sterling. Since June, the pound has fallen by 16 per cent...

Saturday 22/October/2016 22:37 PM

CETA deal failure

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...