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The right policy agenda is one that would foster stronger, more inclusive growth. Photo: Reuters

Jason Furman | Can economic policy solve economic problems?

4 min read . 01 Jan 2018

(Left to right) Governor of the Bank of Japan Haruhiko Kuroda, US Federal Reserve chair Janet Yellen and president of the European Central Bank Mario Draghi. Photo: Reuters

Raghuram Rajan | Central banks’ year of reckoning

12 min read . 01 Jan 2018

As we head into 2018, we should recognize that another year of populist turbulence beckons. Photo: Reuters

Radosław Sikorski | Stealing the populists’ clothes

5 min read . 01 Jan 2018

Africa’s GDP per capita stands at only $2,000 per year, and the region has the lowest proportion of wage earners (around 20%) in the world. Photo: iStockphoto

Célestin Monga | Africa, the business deal of the century

4 min read . 01 Jan 2018

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Klaus Schwab | Agile governance for a fractured world

4 min read . 01 Jan 2018

Donald Trump’s doctrine might please his core constituents, but it fails to account for even the most basic principles and mechanisms of international politics. Photo: AFP

Elmar Brok | ‘America First’ wakes up the EU

4 min read . 01 Jan 2018

While there has been a marked rise in indicators of consumer and business sentiment, and with them, investment, it would be wrong to attribute the recent upswing entirely to happenstance or ‘animal spirits’. Photo: Bloomberg

Maurice Obstfeld | Short-term gains, long-term hazards

5 min read . 01 Jan 2018

While Venezuela’s crisis is now firmly on the international community’s radar, few have fully grasped why it is happening, or what a slide into autocracy might mean beyond the country’s borders. Photo: Reuters

María Corina Machado | Venezuela’s struggle for freedom

4 min read . 01 Jan 2018

After a half-century-long insurgency fuelled by drug cartels, Cubans, and money launderers, the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) laid down their weapons and entered the political mainstream in 2017. Photo: Reuters

Jorge G. Castañeda | Latin America’s annus mediocris

4 min read . 01 Jan 2018

Russian President Vladimir Putin. In 2017, corruption and its attendant scandals toppled presidents and prime ministers, cut down political opposition leaders, and fuelled ‘populist’ revolts worldwide. Photo: Reuters

Janine R. Wedel | The venal roots of political turmoil

5 min read . 01 Jan 2018

Around the world, the coordinated effort to use social media as a conduit for junk news has fuelled cynicism, increased divisions between citizens and parties, and influenced the broader media agenda. Reuters

Making social media safe for democracy

5 min read . 01 Jan 2018

The debate about growth in 2018 must include a focus on promoting risk-taking and experimentation. Photo: AFP

Mariana Mazzucato | Rediscovering public wealth creation

5 min read . 01 Jan 2018

The worry is that our national economies, many of them already highly regulated in the name of stability, will become much more regulated in the name of a green economy. Photo:

Edmund S. Phelps | Saving the environment and the economy

6 min read . 01 Jan 2018

While Donald Trump certainly holds the most powerful office in the world when it comes to ordering military strikes, his power to refute the scientific consensus regarding climate change, and to resist the global transition to a green economy, is rather limited. Photo: Reuters

Laurence Tubiana | A year of renewed climate commitments

5 min read . 31 Dec 2017

Climate change poses a grave threat to the natural environment, to economic growth, and to the lives of all people around the world, especially the poorest and most vulnerable. Photo: Wikimedia Commons

A truly global response to climate change

3 min read . 31 Dec 2017

Indonesia’s standing in the World Bank’s ease of doing business ranking has skyrocketed 34 places since the current government took office in 2014. Photo: Reuters

Sri Mulyani Indrawati | East Asia’s rising star

4 min read . 01 Jan 2018

The policies of Trump administration committed to putting America first are likely, in Asia at least, to result in America being put last. Photo: Reuters

Kevin Rudd | The Trumping of Asia

4 min read . 01 Jan 2018

Since taking office in 2012, Chinese President Xi Jinping has pursued a large-scale anti-corruption campaign, which constrained and even eliminated potential political rivals, thereby enabling him to consolidate his power swiftly. Photo: Reuters

Minxin Pei | Xi Jinping unbound?

4 min read . 01 Jan 2018

South Korea remains particularly vulnerable to the whims of North Korea’s impetuous and ruthless leader, Kim Jong-un—and that should concern all of Asia’s municipal leaders. Photo: Reuters

Yuriko Koike | Asia’s cities against North Korea

5 min read . 31 Dec 2017

Democracy has a spirit, not just a form; and today’s level of polarization is inconsistent with it. Photo: Bloomberg

Tony Blair | Revolutionary centrism

4 min read . 01 Jan 2018

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