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Popular uprisings across France are threatening to shatter the hope that so many had placed in French President Emmanuel Macron after his election in May...

For many of the world’s economies, financial markets, heads of government, and carbon policies, 2018 did not end well. The scars of the global financial...

Forty years ago, on December 29, 1978, the 11th Central Committee of the Communist Party of China released the official communiqué from its third plenary...

The World Bank and other multilateral institutions are increasingly promoting measures to “de-risk” infrastructure investments in developing countries,...

About a decade ago, the Commission on Growth and Development (which I chaired) published a report that attempted to distill 20 years of research and...

Discontent without end looms over Britain. Leavers and Remainers are equally despondent. Her Majesty’s Government and the Labour opposition are equally...

A closer look at international and regional reports on countries in the GCC region makes us realize that the influx of foreign direct investment (FDI) to...

For those who hadn’t yet figured it out, the price of having a US president who disdains expert opinion and who is impulsive, mendacious, not very smart,...

Since beginning its reform and opening up 40 years ago this month, China has been a very good student. And now, after four decades of rapid development, the...

From a European perspective, 2019 promises to be another difficult year, dominated by large challenges that could easily turn into menacing crises. Barring...