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By John B. Taylor STANFORD – No US secretary of the treasury will have spoken out so often and with...

By  Carlos Lopes CAPE TOWN – This was supposed to be the year Europe and Africa redefined their relationship. In...

By Kristalina Georgieva & Sigrid Kaag   WASHINGTON, DC/THE HAGUE – Owing to the COVID-19 pandemic, the global economy is suffering its...

By George Soros   NEW YORK – Hungary and Poland have vetoed the European Union’s proposed €1.15 trillion ($1.4 trillion) seven-year...

By Kenneth Rogoff  CAMBRIDGE – With alternative assets such as gold and Bitcoin thriving in the pandemic, some top economists...

By Alain Ebobissé   CASABLANCA – For Africa, the COVID-19 pandemic will likely mean negative GDP growth at unprecedented rates. In...

By Terry Chan & Alexandra Dimitrijevic   NEW YORK – As countries, companies, and households confront the COVID-19 pandemic’s economic fallout,...

By Kingsley Chiedu Moghalu   BOSTON – The selection of the World Trade Organization’s next director-general has entered its final...

Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, Nigeria’s two-time minister of finance and the country’s candidate for the top job of director general of the...

By John B. Taykor   STANFORD – Many of the world’s central banks have been formally reviewing their monetary-policy strategies...