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By David Malpass   WASHINGTON, DC – Girls are attending school in greater numbers than ever before, and women are...

By Stephen S. Roach   NEW HAVEN – The world economy has clearly caught a cold. The outbreak of COVID-19...

By Willem H. Buiter NEW YORK – In December 2019, the Swedish central bank departed from a negative-interest-rate policy that it...

By Célestin Monga   ABIDJAN – West African political leaders recently announced that the CFA franc – a currency created by...

By George Soros   MUNICH – Neither the European public nor European political and business leaders fully understand the threat presented...

By Carlos Lopes   CAPE TOWN – African heads of state and government are convening at the annual African Union...

By Andrés Velasco   LONDON – Cosmopolitanism gets plenty of bad press nowadays. “Cosmopolitan” is often paired with “elites,” as in...

By Kenneth Rogoff   LONDON – Will the next recession be worse than you think? With the major central banks having...

By Raphaël Hadas-Lebel   PARIS – A year after a proposed fuel tax triggered the gilets jaunes (yellow vest) protests,...

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