Author: PROJECT SYNDICATE

It has been 18 months since Narendra Modi sworn in as India’s prime minister, but the Indian economy hasn’t not set ...

As countries shift towards less labour-intensive, more technologically driven industries, workers may find ...

After years of posting phenomenal growth rates, China enters into the phase of “new normal” growth. Asian countries ...

With countries cutting back on government spending in the age of austerity, we risk underinvestment in ...

GENEVA – Of the myriad challenges the world faces today, perhaps the most overwhelming is how to shape the Fourth ...

In days of slow growth, central banks have adopted policies such as quantitative easing, low interest rates and ...

Last month alone, we saw the Fed raise its interest rates and Opec raise its output ceiling. This has thrown more ...

DUBLIN – The Mediterranean migration crisis has delivered two critical lessons. First, Europe and the international ...

BERKELEY – When Facebook’s founder, Mark Zuckerberg, and his wife, Priscilla Chan, recently announced their plan to ...

LONDON – “Honestly,” said Bill Gates during the COP21 meeting in Paris earlier this month, “I’ve been a bit ...

NAIROBI – Rapid advances in technology have dramatically lowered the cost of gathering data. Sensors in space, the ...

Over the last year, global growth has been anemic – and the forecast is only slightly better for 2016. Something ...

The end of the year is a good time to consider the risks that lie ahead of us. The main longer-term risks are ...

What Argentina and Venezuela show is the inherent fragility of illiberal democracy as a political system. Under ...

MILAN – The US Federal Reserve has finally, after almost a decade of steadfast adherence to very low interest ...

We are experiencing a new wave of innovation in health care – one that promises to create the smartest, most ...

PARIS – Until the Industrial Revolution, neither formal education nor advances in technology made much of a ...

PARIS – Before the second round of France’s regional elections on Sunday, most predictions suggested that five, ...

PALO ALTO – In an ideal world, everyone, everywhere, would access the health services they need without having to ...

SEATTLE – As price-gouging practices by a handful of drug companies attract headlines, one troubling aspect of the ...