WASHINGTON—One month of war in Iran has added nearly $4.4 billion to Africa’s annual debt burden, enough to build a gigawatt ...

Barry Eichengreen compares the US currency's global trajectory to that of the Roman denarius under Emperor Nero.

Timothy Snyder worries that the US president could exploit a terrorist act, or engineer one, to rig the midterm elections.

The US-Israeli war will be remembered as yet another episode of powerful countries falling into the trap of asymmetric ...

Economic performance in the United States has proved unexpectedly resilient in recent years, withstanding even Donald Trump’s ...

Kaushik Basu thinks existing measures of institutional health overlook how interconnected political systems have become.

Attiya Waris sees the 17th General Review of Quotas as a test of whether the multilateral lender can transform itself.

Attiya Waris, Professor of Fiscal Law and Policy at the University of Nairobi and a senior scholar at the Georgetown Center ...

Ian Bremmer notes that the country is faring better than most from the economic shock emanating from the Gulf.

Jim O'Neill suspects that Donald Trump’s Middle East misadventure will shift the regional balance of power eastward.

Stephen Holmes warns that the system Viktor Orbán has created means that losing an election may not mean relinquishing power.

Ricardo Hausmann & Andrés Velasco ask what kind of world economy would vindicate today's market valuations of a handful of US ...