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NEW YORK—The monetary integration of the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) has become an exercise in perpetual postponement:...

NEW YORK—Despite the rising risks, uncertainties, and large negative supply shocks of the last two years, stock markets and the...

LIBREVILLE—During a recent talk at the Harvard Kennedy School, students asked me what it would take to turn African countries...

STANFORD—The theme of last month's annual gathering of central bankers and economists in Jackson Hole, Wyoming, was "financial innovation." One...

BERKELEY—OpenAI and Anthropic will soon have to explain to investors why they are each supposedly worth $2–3 trillion. They will...

PARIS—The debate over artificial intelligence and employment has become preoccupied by a false choice. One side predicts large-scale job destruction;...

ABUJA/LAGOS—Africa has long found itself at the wrong end of the innovation chain. Breakthroughs were made and commercialized elsewhere, then...

SAN FRANCISCO—In March, Iranian drones targeted three Amazon Web Services facilities in Bahrain and the United Arab Emirates, hitting two...

NEW YORK—The International Monetary Fund is conducting a Review of Program Design and Conditionality, its first major evaluation since 2019,...

TOWNSHEND, VERMONT—In his remarks to this year's gathering of central bankers in Jackson Hole, Wyoming, US Federal Reserve Chair Kevin...