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Monday 28/January/2019 14:48 PM

Data-driven gender equality

At the current rate of progress, it will take more than 200 years to achieve gender equality and female empowerment at work. In many countries, girls are...

Monday 28/January/2019 14:44 PM

Brexit demands a new British politics

The populist revolts in the United States and the United Kingdom have each reached a critical juncture. At the start of his third year in office, US...

Monday 28/January/2019 14:39 PM

Morality and money management

The death on January 16 of Jack Bogle, the founder of the investment company Vanguard Group, was met with a slew of flattering obituaries. Of course,...

Sunday 27/January/2019 14:48 PM

Solidarity for Adamowicz, Poland, and Europe

As the birthplace of Solidarity, the movement that helped bring communism to an end in Europe, Gdańsk has long served as a symbol of freedom and openness....

Sunday 27/January/2019 14:45 PM

Trump, Macron, and the poverty of liberalism

No Western liberal would disagree that Donald Trump’s election was a disaster for American society, while that of Emmanuel Macron was a triumph for French...

Sunday 27/January/2019 14:41 PM

What next for China’s development model?

China’s strategy for economic growth has been a work in progress since Deng Xiaoping launched the country’s “reform and opening up” in 1978. While...

Sunday 27/January/2019 14:39 PM

Macron’s great gamble

In reaction to the ongoing “Yellow Vest” revolt in France, President Emmanuel Macron has decided to hold a “grand” nationwide debate. Over the...

Saturday 26/January/2019 14:50 PM

The think-tank dilemma

The Brookings Institution in Washington, DC – perhaps the world’s top think tank – is under scrutiny for receiving six-figure donations from Chinese...

Saturday 26/January/2019 14:47 PM

The world economy goes Hollywood

If there is one useful conclusion that economists and investors can draw from the crazy year that has just ended – indeed, from the whole crazy decade...