Economists widely agree that AI will boost labor productivity. But this view does not account for the possibility that ...

Guillermo Ortiz tallies the costs of cocaine trafficking in Colombia, extortion in Mexico, and financial corruption in Brazil ...

Paola Subacchi thinks the US treasury secretary’s efforts to move bond markets shows that the dollar remains everyone’s ...

Yanis Varoufakis cites adherents’ belief that, unlike in the West, the technology will avoid capitalism’s “rent trap.” ...

Across South Asia, this sense has animated powerful protest movements, some of which could shape their countries' political ...

Brahma Chellaney urges greater transparency and international oversight for a project that could affect two billion people.

Danny Sriskandarajah urges Andy Burnham’s government to make the most of the UK’s upcoming G20 and G7 presidencies.

Katharina Pistor thinks the two institutions have lost sight of their central, but not independent, role in financial markets ...

Esther Ngumbi explains how policymakers can help farmers raise yields without further degrading the environment.

Jamal Ibrahim Haidar & Seyed Mohammad Karimi show that a supposedly humane form of coercion imposes the greatest costs on the most vulnerable civilians.

Kaushik Basu urges economists, journalists, and other observers to probe the misery hidden by aggregate income statistics.

Seyed Mohammad Karimi is Interim Chair of the Department of Health Management and Systems Sciences at the University of ...