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 ...

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 ...

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

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

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.

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

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

Lenny Mendonca & Martin Neil Baily see looming worker displacement as a greater challenge than systemic financial concerns.

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