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Solving India’s Industrialization Puzzle

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Rabah Arezki

The Trade Shifts Redefining Economic Development

NEW HAVEN/WASHINGTON, DC – Global trade is undergoing a profound transformation, driven by three major shifts. New technologies are redefining...

yesterday 20

Pinelopi Koujianou Goldberg

Russia’s Nostalgia Machine

NEW YORK – Walk around any Russian city, from Moscow and Saint Petersburg to Yekaterinburg and Kazan, and you will come across people wearing...

yesterday 9

Nina L. Khrushcheva

Readying the Resistance, Again

BERKELEY – November 5, 2024, was a humbling day for Democrats. Not only did Donald Trump regain the presidency, but the Republicans also won the...

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Laura Tyson

Ensuring Europe’s Supply of Critical Minerals

BRUSSELS/ERFURT – The European Union’s plan to achieve net-zero emissions by 2050 has an Achilles’ heel: the EU relies on external sources...

yesterday 8

Rüya Perincek

China’s Trump Dilemma

ATHENS – With Donald Trump back in the White House, the high tariffs he has pledged to slap on Chinese imports are not China’s greatest concern....

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Yanis Varoufakis

The Key to Narrowing the Development Gap

PARIS – In 2015, United Nations member states unanimously pledged to work toward “peace and prosperity for people and the planet” by meeting...

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Pascal Lamy

The End of Progress?

NEW YORK – Thirty-five years ago, the world experienced an epochal change with the collapse of European communism. Francis Fukuyama famously...

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Joseph E. Stiglitz

Trump at the Gates

BERLIN – The peaceful handover of presidential power has been a political norm in the United States since the end of George Washington’s second...

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Joschka Fischer

Trump the Revolutionary Isolationist

TEL AVIV – Donald Trump has often been dismissed as a hip-shooter devoid of strategic sense or policy vision. While this assessment is not...

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Shlomo Ben-Ami

Trump’s First Test Will Be the Bond Market

LONDON – As Donald Trump returns to the White House, signals from the bond market are bursting out of the specialist world of financial geeks to...

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Jim O&x27Neill

How the Trump Administration Can Hit Its Growth Target

NEW YORK – US Treasury Secretary nominee Scott Bessent is right to emphasize faster economic growth as a touchstone of Donald Trump’s second...

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Glenn Hubbard

Economists’ Way Out of the Wilderness

AUSTIN – In a remarkable catalogue of horrors for The New York Times, journalist Ben Casselman details the “central tenets” of mainstream...