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By Colin Coleman   NEW HAVEN – Africa today accounts for around 17% of the world’s population, but only about 3% of global GDP.

By Stephen S. Roach   NEW HAVEN – With the benefit of full-year data, only now are we becoming aware of the danger the global

By Joseph E. Stiglitz   DAVOS – This year marked the 50th anniversary of the World Economic Forum’s flagship meeting of the

By Yanis Varoufakis   ATHENS – Steven Mnuchin, US President Donald Trump’s treasury secretary, outraged liberal commentators at

By Joseph E. Stiglitz   NEW YORK – As the world’s business elites trek to Davos for their annual gathering, people should be

By Mohamed A. El-Erian   NEWPORT BEACH – US President Donald Trump’s authorization of the targeted killing of Iranian Quds Force

By Reda Cherif,  Fuad Hasanov & Sabine Schlorke   WASHINGTON, DC – For many firms in emerging and developing economies,

By Diane Coyle   CAMBRIDGE – The 2020s will be the decade when the idea that economic problems can be “left to the market” to

By Jeffrey D. Sachs   NEW YORK – US President Donald Trump’s order to assassinate Iran’s General Qassem Suleimani while on an

By Alissa Amico   DUBAI – If the global economy were a chess game, few pieces would be left on the board. Most would be relegated