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By Olga Morawczynski and David Porteous   TORONTO – The growth of digital platforms in Africa could offer new opportunities to...

By Barry Eichengreen   KONSTANZ – The policy interest rates of advanced-country central banks are stuck at uncomfortably low levels....

By Diane Coyle   CAMBRIDGE – One of the biggest concerns about today’s tech giants is their market power. At least...

By Jim O’Neill   LONDON – Like many others, I was shocked by recent images showing the size of the queue...

By Dani Rodrik   CAMBRIDGE – US President Donald Trump has used national security as a justification for his tariffs on...

By Kemal Dervis   WASHINGTON, DC – Technological waves have always driven social and political change and progress, along with...

By Howard Davies     EDINBURGH – Journalists, the adage goes, write “the first rough draft of history.” It’s a...

By Nouriel Roubini   NEW YORK – Last summer, my colleague Brunello Rosa and I identified ten potential downside risks that...

By Daron Acemoglu   CHICAGO – In the Middle Ages, Italian city-states led the European “commercial revolution” with innovations in finance,...

By Gordon Brown   LONDON – After three days of pomp and ceremony that presented an image of a seemingly...