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By M Niaz Asadullah   KUALA LUMPUR – South Asia’s record on gender equality is weak, to say the least....

By Landry Signé   WASHINGTON, DC – Despite apocalyptic predictions, Africa may be better positioned than many think to weather the...

By Arkebe Oqubay   ADDIS ABABA – British Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s decision to merge the United Kingdom’s Department for...

By Dani Rodrik & Stefanie Stantcheva   CAMBRIDGE – COVID-19 has exacerbated deep fault lines in the global economy, starkly exposing the...

By Kenneth Rogoff   CAMBRIDGE – The post-pandemic world economy seems likely to be a far less globalized economy, with...

By Paola Subacchi     LONDON – With output having collapsed as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic, many are...

By Mariana Mazzucato & Giulio Quaggiotto   LONDON – Decades of privatization, outsourcing, and budget cuts in the name of “efficiency”...

By Daniel D. Bradlow   PRETORIA – COVID-19 is creating Sub-Saharan Africa’s worst social and economic crisis since World War II....

By Josh Lipsky & Jeremy Mark   WASHINGTON, DC – Even before COVID-19 began its deadly spread across their borders, developing countries...

By Mohamed A. El-Erian     LAGUNA BEACH – Having already been buffeted by two big shocks in the last...