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Karl Muth argues that the croissant’s place in the French economy holds wider lessons for global manufacturers.
Last week, I departed before dawn with French breakfast…
Marion Labouré and Juergen Braunstein examine the structural drivers of recent turns towards populist and extremist politics, and offer Sweden as a role model.
The recent Brexit…
Economists Justin Lin and Wang Yan are the authors of this first commentary in the Emerging Global Governance (EGG) series. Their piece details the key shifts in the global…
Karl Muth explores the challenge of acknowledging the stubbornly slow pace of some global risks.
Our political systems move quickly, as does our media cycle. The vote for Brexit…
Karl Muth explains why basic incomes should transcend typical left right divides.
It isn’t obvious to most of my colleagues and friends why, during the past ten years, I (and…
Brian Stoddart comments on a growing global ennui with a professional political class seen to be self-serving and aloof.
As we contemplate the mounting wreckage of the United…
Andy Sumner lays out why international aid must continually revisit the tensions between structural transformations and inclusive growth if it is to address the problems facing a…
Karl T. Muth observes that while those injured and killed by guns may grab headlines, gun violence is not moving markets.
I wrote my masters degree in Chicago, a place where more…
Martha Molfetas suggests that Britain’s vote to leave the European Union may just be the first of many coming turns towards isolationism.
Last Friday was truly a day that…
Like you, I’m devastated. Stunned. Heart-broken. Like you, I was hoping, pleading for a Remain vote – if only by the slightest of margins so that we could repair our…