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ANGERS—The development of payment infrastructure in emerging-market economies (EMEs)—from instant payment systems in retail markets to wholesale central bank digital...

CAMBRIDGE—Africa's development-finance gap is the continent's biggest challenge, and at its core, it is a design problem. In the absence...

AUSTIN—More than nine weeks into the three-day war on Iran—recently declared "over" by the White House even as threats continue—it...

LONDON—For decades, global development efforts reflected the assumption that international cooperation, however imperfect, was ultimately guided by a shared commitment...

When the late playwright Tom Stoppard's Rock 'n' Roll first opened 20 years ago, it was deeply personal for me as a student at...

One of West Africa's most persistent and underfunded health threats, Lassa fever, still causes preventable deaths more than a half-century...

It is almost impossible to imagine European Union officials receiving their salaries in a currency other than the euro, which...

NEW YORK – Ongoing efforts to derail multilateral tax cooperation lie at the heart of a global program to replace...

WASHINGTON, DC – The great economist John Maynard Keynes argued in his 1930 essay “Economic Possibilities for Our Grandchildren” that...

WASHINGTON, DC – US President Donald Trump rose to power partly by positioning himself as a foil to global elites....