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India faces a seemingly mammoth COVID-19 vaccination challenge, but its progress so far suggests it may be well equipped to handle the task. Other countries seeking to protect their populations from the pandemic should draw at least three lessons from India''s efforts.
The world is confronting three great ruptures: the COVID-19 pandemic, the digital revolution, and climate change. Unfortunately, it is confronting them with the nation-state, which is no longer fit for purpose.
Can America escape the stimulus trap? Editor''s note: Shang-Jin Wei, a former chief economist at th...
Former US Treasury Secretary Larry Summers has been making the case that Joe Biden''s COVID-19 relief plan is so large that it will likely trigger inflation. But his argument has a few glaring flaws - beginning with its failure to appreciate just how badly Americans need support today.
An Open Letter to Joe Biden on International Corporate TaxationDear Mr. President,The world has welcomed your election and commitment to restore diplomatic engagement ...
Daron Acemoglu, BOSTON - Efforts in the United States to increase the federal minimum wage...
With his plan to build a concert of democracies to contain China, US President Joe Biden is making a grave mistake. The US and China should each be doing their part to protect the global commons, not competing for global dominance.
LONDON - While they stare quietly at their models, macroeconomists are hearing the distant rumble of revolt. A year ago, the Nobel laureate economist Joseph Stiglitz ...
Advances in artificial intelligence and machine learning have again raised fears of large-scale job losses. And while labor-market adaptation is likely to stave off permanent high unemployment, it cannot be counted on to prevent a sharp rise in inequality.
The successful landing of NASA''s Perseverance rover on Mars is about far more than scientific curiosity or national prestige. For the sake of humanity''s long-term survival, it is imperative that we embrace our technological know-how to establish life beyond planet Earth.
America''s Stimulus DebateThe US Congress is currently debating President Joe Biden''s proposed $1.9 trillion economic rescue package, which includes a planned increase ...
Myriad political and economic factors, together with muddled leadership, eroded democratic institutions and enfeebled governments across Europe between 1918 and 1939. No one today can say how the damage wrought by former US President Donald Trump and his populist acolytes in Europe will ramify in the years ahead.
Reducing pre- and postnatal sex selection, curbing the preferential treatment of boys, and addressing parents'' underinvestment in daughters requires increased spending on public education for girls. Bangladesh offers an example of the long-term benefits of such an approach.
President Joe Biden''s administration appears determined to separate America''s relationship with the Kingdom from the relationship with Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman. But this separation will likely prove impossible to sustain.
