Many developing economies will likely begin to reconsider their participation in an unequal system that no longer serves their interests.
With the return of Donald Trump and his MAGA movement, perhaps we should call the current era “end of progress.”
Syrians will not miss Assad, a brutal ruler who failed his people.
The situation in Sudan exposes a global economic logic that has remained obfuscated in other cases.
To be sure, economic development and demographics alone are not enough to guarantee Olympic success.
While the attempted assassinations of Trump and Fico have caused many liberals to tone down their rhetoric, such reactions miss the point.
We all know that we are part of nature and fully dependent on it for our survival, yet this recognition does not translate into action.
As climate change accelerates, heat waves are expected to become increasingly frequent and intense
It is commonly believed that the future of humanity will one day be threatened by the rise of artificial intelligence (AI), perhaps embodied in malevolent robots.
It is increasingly clear that the European Union was not built to be a global actor.
"Not every-thing that counts can be counted, and not everything that can be counted counts.”
Rapid technological transformation will be a key feature of the economy well into the future. At the national, regional, and global level, frontier technologies are offering promising new opportunities, but are also introducing new policy challenges.
The world turned a corner in 2019. The problem is that the world order didn’t turn with it. This disconnect could have disastrous consequences. The biggest global change has been the start of the “Asian century”.
Every society rests on a web of norms, institutions, policies, laws, and commitments to those in need of support.
One of the most worrying news stories of 2019 did not receive the coverage one might expect from media outlets in the United States or Europe. But the economic slowdown in China, and the potentially steep deceleration in growth in India, will most likely receive considerably more attention in 2020.
The end of the year is a time for closure and new beginnings. As 2019 winds down, that is certainly the case with Brexit. Following the victory of British Prime Minister Boris Johnson and the Tories in the general election this month, it is now clear that the United Kingdom will leave the European Union on January 31, 2020.
Judging by his appointment of a first-rate economist to his cabinet as Minister of Economy, Argentina’s new president, Alberto Fernández, is off to a good start in confronting his country’s economic problems.
December 11, 2019, was the 18th anniversary of China’s accession to the World Trade Organisation. It also marks the start of an era in which the WTO no longer has a functioning appellate body to adjudicate trade disputes among member countries. Why is the WTO imploding, and can it be resuscitated before it’s too late?
