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ABIDJAN/CLERMONT-FERRAND/OXFORD – The value-added tax (VAT) is one of the most widely implemented tax innovations of the past 70 years....

NEW YORK – On September 24, 20 democratic countries from the Global North and South – including Brazil, Chile, Norway,...

WASHINGTON, DC – As was widely expected, the US Federal Reserve has lowered its policy rate by 25 basis points,...

PARIS – In November 1985, during their first summit in Geneva, US President Ronald Reagan and Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev slipped away...

CAMBRIDGE – To understand the populist revolt against free trade and other pillars of mainstream economics – a revolt that...

ADDIS ABABA – Next month, heads of state and government, climate scientists, private-sector leaders, civil-society and youth representatives, and global...

LONDON – Much about life under US President Donald Trump’s second administration is mystifying and strange, not least his treatment...

Dambisa Moyo Dambisa Moyo, an international economist, is the author of four New York Times best-selling books, including Edge of...

Marcos Vinicius Chiliatto & Michael & Krake Marcos Vinicius Chiliatto is World Bank Group Executive Director for Brazil, Colombia, the...

Adekeye Adebajo Adekeye Adebajo, a professor and a senior research fellow at the University of Pretoria’s Centre for the Advancement...