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By David Sainsbury   LONDON – Over the last 25 years, the relative growth rates of the world’s major economies have...

ByAndrés Velasco & Luis Felipe Céspedes     SANTIAGO – In Santiago, Chile, a massive graffito by the exit ramp of...

By Stephen S. Roach   NEW HAVEN – Predicting the next crisis – financial or economic – is a fool’s...

By Anatole Kaletsky   LONDON – Wars end when the belligerents give up fighting. The surest way for this to happen,...

By Mohamed A. El-Erian   ABU DHABI – This being December, my natural inclination is to review the past year’s...

By Andrés Velasco   LONDON – How can we know if an economic policy is achieving its stated objective? Well,...

By Cina Lawson   LOMÉ – The rise of digital pay-as-you-go (PAYGo) services in Africa is cause for celebration. By enabling...

By Kaushik Basu   ITHACA – The unexpected financial crash of 2008, the persistence of the slowdown that occurred in its...

By Joseph E. Stiglitz   NEW YORK – It’s clear: we are living beyond our planet’s limits. Unless we change something,...

By Dani Rodrik   CAMBRIDGE – Inequality looms larger on policymakers’ agenda today than it has in a long time. With...