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Saturday 06/October/2018 14:23 PM

China’s governance tightrope

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...

Wednesday 03/October/2018 14:46 PM

Profit sharing now

At the British Labour Party’s annual conference in Liverpool this month, the shadow chancellor of the exchequer, John McDonnell, proposed a profit-sharing...

Wednesday 03/October/2018 14:44 PM

'Health for all' forty years on

Forty years ago last month, thousands of delegates from 134 countries gathered in Kazakhstan, then a part of the former Soviet Union, to adopt the...

Tuesday 02/October/2018 15:09 PM

The China tariff mess

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...

Tuesday 02/October/2018 15:00 PM

Brexit and the European order

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...