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CAMBRIDGE – In mid-December, the United Nations will launch the latest of its annual landmark Human Development ...

PARIS – Ten or 20 years ago, the existential question facing the European Union (EU) was whether it still had a ...

BRUSSELS – Technology, the saying goes, is a double-edged sword. But when it comes to human trafficking, that has ...

CAMBRIDGE – I was in Beijing last month when the Chinese government released a preliminary summary of its 13th ...

BERKELEY – Today’s labour markets are undergoing radical change, as digital platforms transform how they operate ...

BUENOS AIRES – For the last 99 years, the presidency of Argentina has rotated between Peronists – Juan Domingo ...

KUALA LUMPUR – Financial regulators are generally known for taking a measured and cautious approach to change. But ...

NEW YORK – At last, Republican candidates in the US presidential campaign have begun focusing on the economy. At a ...

MILAN – The global economy is settling into a slow-growth rut, steered there by policymakers’ inability or ...

COPENHAGEN – The United Nations (UN) Climate Change Conference in Paris later this month is being billed as an ...

WASHINGTON, DC – For a long time, as a college professor and then as the chief economic adviser to the Indian ...

CAMBRIDGE – When Turkey’s Justice and Development Party (AKP) defied pundits and pollsters by regaining a ...

This week marks Canada’s first change of government in nearly a decade, following the unexpectedly large victory of ...

ISTANBUL – The outcome of Turkey’s latest general election – voters have gone to the polls twice in the last five ...

PARIS – When it comes to compensation, the company you work for often matters more than how good you are at what ...

LONDON – The sailing of a US warship within 12 miles of one of China’s new artificial islands in the South China ...

STANFORD – Following the conclusion of the Trans-Pacific Partnership by 12 Pacific Rim countries, debates about the ...

CAMBRIDGE – When I was in Chile earlier this month, I was impressed by the contrast between the palpable success of ...

MOSCOW – Across Europe, apologists for Russia and Russian policy have coalesced into what amounts to a fifth ...

SEOUL – Once upon a time, two superpowers, the United States and the Soviet Union, held summits to reduce the ...