In 2014, Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi came to power at the helm of the Bharatiya Janata Party after articulating a vision of a revived India, a...
Italy faces a double economic crisis in which two recessions and a banking crisis over the past decade have come on top of a slow structural decline in growth...
“Air Pollution” was the theme of this year’s World Environment Day, marked annually on June 5. World Environment Day 2019 urged governments, industry,...
Air pollution is a challenge that threatens basic human welfare, damages natural and physical capital, and constrains economic growth.
It’s safe to say that we have seen tolerance for racism around the world drop drastically in recent decades, even in Africa and South America.
Let’s hope that the stockpiles of venom and slander leveled against Prime Minister Saad Hariri - either by design or flagrant insinuation - and against what...
As U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo accused Iran of “unprovoked attacks” near the Strait of Hormuz, video screens behind him showed thick black smoke...
U.S. President Donald Trump spoke the right words in commemorating the 75th anniversary of D-Day, but did he mean them?
The current backlash against globalization, most notably from working-class citizens in advanced economies who are worried about stagnant wages and insecure...
Health care is a human right, yet roughly half of the world’s population - 3.5 billion people - forgoes essential health services due to financial constraints...
China’s progress toward an open society ended when the People’s Liberation Army slaughtered at least hundreds, if not thousands, of peaceful demonstrators in...
Last month’s election results for the European Parliament were mixed, which meant that every side could claim a victory of sorts. Right-wing populists did...
After British Prime Minister Theresa May’s resignation announcement, several of the candidates to succeed her have proclaimed their desire for a “no-deal...
Though the final vote tally might seem to suggest otherwise, the European Parliament elections were a strategic success for French President Emmanuel Macron.
Thirty years ago last month, I was in Beijing as a British development minister for the annual meeting of the Asian Development Bank.
French President Emmanuel Macron thinks an overhaul of Germany’s economic model is overdue.
Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe prioritized pomp over policy while hosting U.S. President Donald Trump this week. The one exception was the issue of North...
The geopolitical chessboard is back. Following a post-1989 interlude in which the direction of history seemed to tilt toward a peaceful liberal order, we now...
Huawei’s name is often translated in English as “Chinese excellence.” The Trump administration last week embarked on a campaign to rebrand the tech giant, in...
The European Parliament elections that concluded on May 26 turned out to be a “Game of Thrones” replay - a long and complex story with a surprising and, for...
As the protests that led to the ouster of Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir in April continue to rage, the large numbers of women taking to the streets of...
Harvard University Professor Alberto Alesina has returned to the debate on budget deficits, austerity and growth.
Across Honduras, El Salvador and Guatemala, women who seek to escape poverty by launching small businesses often find that success brings more suffering - and...
The failure of the Indian state to provide basic public services and implement job-creating infrastructure projects was a prominent theme in the country’s...
In the end, nothing quite epitomized U.K. Prime Minister Theresa May’s disastrous premiership better than her ignominious departure.
The European Parliament elections are known to be unlike any other elections around the world.
Debates about inflation in advanced economies have changed remarkably over the past decades.
While the notion of green economy was met with resistance a few years ago, it is now a vibrant item on the Saudi agenda.
In the years leading up to Syria’s civil war, the country endured three consecutive record-breaking droughts.