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Tuesday 28/August/2018 14:57 PM

Has the emerging-economy crisis cycle ended?

Crises are nothing new for emerging economies, which have repeated the same patterns again and again, with often-devastating results. But have those...

Tuesday 28/August/2018 14:38 PM

A tragedy for Turkey and the US

Among the many casualties of US President Donald Trump’s trade-policy misadventures, Turkey may be the saddest case to date. Until a few years ago, Turkey...

Tuesday 28/August/2018 14:25 PM

Standing up for the UN

It was the autumn of 2001, sometime between the September 11 terrorist attacks in the United States and US President George W. Bush’s invasion of...

Monday 27/August/2018 15:03 PM

America’s hidden debt

Former US Secretary of the Treasury Lawrence H. Summers recently quipped that, “Fiscal stimulus is like a drug with tolerance effects; to keep growth...

Monday 27/August/2018 14:55 PM

The economic costs of Erdoğan

Turkey’s political model has long lost its luster, but a growing diplomatic crisis with the administration of US President Donald Trump has now pushed the...

Monday 27/August/2018 14:51 PM

Making migration safe for climate nexus

Humanity is on the move. We are living in an era of unprecedented mobility of ideas, money, and, increasingly, people. The sheer size of the human...

Sunday 26/August/2018 15:13 PM

Trump’s strong-dollar weakness

Having gained more than 8 per cent in value since the start of the year, the US dollar is nearing highs not seen in more than a decade, and market...