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YAOUNDÉ/CAIRO—Evidence of markets' systematic overestimation of risk in developing economies has been piling up for years. The latest addition is...

GENEVA—Despite delivering extraordinary gains in the fight against child mortality and diseases such as HIV, polio, and malaria, the global...

CAMBRIDGE—African economies began this year facing no shortage of challenges, including lower global demand for their goods and services, unpredictable...

CAPE TOWN—As summer begins, a detached observer of global affairs might conclude that financial markets are facing darker days. A...

MUNICH/TORONTO—In June 2025, while testifying under oath before a French Senate inquiry, Microsoft France's director of public and legal affairs...

N'DJAMENA—As everyone knows, the war in the Middle East has caused a sharp spike in oil, gas, and food prices,...

NAIROBI/SEATTLE—As the war in Iran disrupts fertilizer supplies and undermines food security around the world, the need to build more...

WASHINGTON, DC—Industrial policy is back, and with a vengeance. After decades of preaching neoliberalism, Western policymakers and intellectuals have rediscovered...

WASHINGTON, DC—In his second term, President Donald Trump has turned extortion and coercion into central features of American statecraft, deploying...

BERLIN—On his recent trip to Beijing, US President Donald Trump, the world's most powerful person, was accompanied by many of...