Patrick Bolton & Haizhou Huang consider what it will take for the government to break the cycle of declining spending and falling prices.

Brahma Chellaney asks whether the group of major emerging economies can catalyze a long-overdue revamping of global ...

James Livingston asks why so many observers now believe that institutions central to modern economies are running a con game.

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Katharina Pistor worries that we have already ceded control to self-interested private corporations and their shareholders.

Ambroise Fayolle points out that biodiversity loss and ecosystem damage jeopardize all other global development goals.

Robert Skidelsky calls attention to the conditions that lead African migrants to risk their lives crossing the Mediterranean.

Jim O'Neill thinks the grouping continues to show that it serves no purpose beyond generating symbolic political gestures.

Tom Ginsburg & Aziz Huq see a pattern of authoritarian movements becoming more effective when given a second shot at power.

Yi Fuxian argues that the country’s efforts to mitigate the effects of rapid demographic aging are too little, too late.

Shashi Tharoor argues that Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s proposal to hold all elections on the same day is a non-starter.

Beyond market failures, there are deeper issues of equity and justice to consider. Wealthier entities’ ability to buy up ...