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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...

By Stephen S. Roach   NEW HAVEN – With the benefit of full-year data, only now are we becoming aware of...

By Joseph E. Stiglitz   DAVOS – This year marked the 50th anniversary of the World Economic Forum’s flagship meeting of...

By Yanis Varoufakis   ATHENS – Steven Mnuchin, US President Donald Trump’s treasury secretary, outraged liberal commentators at this year’s...

By Joseph E. Stiglitz   NEW YORK – As the world’s business elites trek to Davos for their annual gathering,...

By Mohamed A. El-Erian   NEWPORT BEACH – US President Donald Trump’s authorization of the targeted killing of Iranian Quds Force...