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By John W.H. Denton, Victor K. Fung, Bob Sternfels, Marcus Wallenberg   John W.H. Denton is Secretary-General of the International...

By Kaushik Basu Kaushik Basu, a former chief economist of the World Bank and chief economic adviser to the Government...

By Kristalina Georgieva & Félix Tshisekedi   KINSHASA – Africa contributes almost nothing to global warming. Its 1.4 billion people...

By Diane Coyle   CAMBRIDGE – How should we measure economic success? Criticisms of conventional indicators, particularly gross domestic product,...

By Daniel Gros BRUSSELS – In recent decades, central bankers’ job had become somewhat boring and frustrating. They were given...

By Mariana Mazzucato and Jayati Ghosh LONDON – Despite multiple technological breakthroughs in the fight to control COVID-19,twice as many...

By Eva Joly PARIS – When you try to fight corruption, corruption fights back. Maltese investigative journalist Daphne Caruana Galizia...

By Jeffrey D. Sachs NEW YORK – At last month’s COP26 climate summit, hundreds of financial institutions declared that they...

By Philippe Aghion and Aymann Mhammedi PARIS – The COVID-19 pandemic has highlighted major weaknesses of both the US and...

By Jeffrey D. Sachs   NEW YORK – The United Nations Climate Change Conference in Glasgow (COP26) fell far short...