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By Nouriel Roubini   NEW YORK – In April, I warned that today’s extremely loose monetary and fiscal policies, when...

By Kaushik Basu   ITHACA – The World Bank’s Global Economic Prospects (GEP) report, published twice a year, is the...

By Jayati Ghosh   NEW DELHI – Once again, emerging markets are on the capital-flows roller coaster – one no...

By Daniel Gros   BRUSSELS – Trade is recovering robustly alongside the upticks in growth in major economies. This good...

By James K. Galbraith   AUSTIN – In a recent commentary for The Washington Post, former US Secretary of the...

By Emmanuel Macron, Paul Kagame, Cyril Ramaphosa, and Macky Sall PARIS – The COVID-19 pandemic has taught us that we...

By Wolfgang Schäuble   Wolfgang Schäuble, a former German finance minister (2009-17) and minister of the interior (1989-91 and 2005-09),...

By Hippolyte Fofack   CAIRO – In 2020, the COVID-19 pandemic caused Africa’s first recession in 25 years. The sharp...

By Kenneth Rogoff CAMBRIDGE – What is remarkable about the increase in nationalist sentiment across the developed world in recent...

By Yanis Varoufakis   ATHENS – Europe has discovered its moral Rubicon, the frontier beyond which commodification becomes intolerable. The...