Chinese policymakers long viewed workers’ grueling schedules as a byproduct of industrial catch-up. But this has become untenable: if Chinese workers are to become middle-class consumers and build ...

Sunru Yong & Saliem Fakir highlight the need to translate nationally determined contributions into a pipeline of bankable ...

Tiago Devesa, Jeongmin Seong and Olivia White identify the main factors that are both sustaining trade volumes and ...

Adekeye Adebajo shows how starting a spat with the leader of the Catholic Church has eroded Donald Trump’s popularity.

Kenneth Rogoff doubts that the technology’s contribution to tax revenues will outweigh massive adjustment costs.

Xolisa Ngwadla & Paul Thompson think the continent is holding all the cards it needs to exercise genuine power in the ...

Private credit markets are under growing stress, fueling fears of a financial crisis that could spill over to the real economy. But a closer look at the evidence suggests that the risks are less ...

Kevin P. Gallagher & Njūgūna S. Ndūng'ū urge the Fund to heed the evidence showing that its programs often leave countries ...

Luciene Pereira argues that instead of bulldozing informal settlements, governments should make them obsolete.

By closing the Strait of Hormuz, Iran has handed the Trump administration a practice test. To pass—and preserve deterrence against a Chinese invasion or blockade of Taiwan—the United States must ...

Inna Bondarenko & Daniel Sleat shed light on a strategy that is designed to disrupt, not transform, the international order.