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By Asmita Parshotam   JOHANNESBURG – With the United States and China locked in a trade war, climate action lagging behind

By Howard Davies   EDINBURGH – It is now well over three years since the United Kingdom voted, by a narrow but significant

By Kenneth Rogoff     CAMBRIDGE – In case you blinked, the Argentine government built up a pile of debt out of almost

By Nouriel Roubini   NEW YORK – In the classic game of “chicken,” two drivers race directly toward each other, and the first to

By Jeffrey D. Sachs & Angelo Riccaboni   NEW YORK – Feeding a planet of 7.7 billion people is no easy matter. Every person on

By Ernest Liu, Atif Mian & Amir Sufi   CHICAGO – The real (inflation-adjusted) yield on ten-year US treasuries is currently

By Kandeh K. Yumkella     FREETOWN, SIERRA LEONE – Africans are increasingly unsettled. Since 2010, at least one million

By Jayati Ghosh   NEW DELHI – At the United Nations General Assembly meetings in New York later this month, world leaders will

By Ottilia Anna Maunganidze   PRETORIA – African countries’ commitment to multilateralism has often gone unnoticed. But, at a

By Mohamed A. El-Erian   CERNOBBIO – Investors and economic observers have begun to ask the same question that I posed in an