Five years ago, China’s leaders decided to target modern state governance as a top reform priority. The goal of such reform is to improve the state’s...
The financial squeeze on India's farmers is set to worsen because of record high fuel prices and surging costs of fertilisers, posing a challenge to...
Whoever wins Brazil's presidential race this month will inherit a fiscal straight jacket and a drifting economy in urgent need of repair - but will have...
At the British Labour Party’s annual conference in Liverpool this month, the shadow chancellor of the exchequer, John McDonnell, proposed a profit-sharing...
When landslides devastated parts of Tajikistan’s Khatlon province in early 2009, the village of Baldzhuvan was better prepared than most. Bibi Rahimova, a...
It is time for an entrepreneurial and knowledge revolution in Africa. Only a properly educated workforce and entrepreneurial class will have the skills and...
The most frequent questions that I get when I speak to non-economists concern the tariffs that the United States is levying on imports from China. Why is...
There are only a few months left until the United Kingdom formally exits the European Union. So far, the debate about Brexit has been framed mainly in...
Democrats believe they stand to benefit if President Donald Trump fires Rod Rosenstein, the US Justice Department official who oversees the Russia probe,...