The country’s roads are nearly twice as dangerous as the rich-world average. It doesn’t have to be that way ...

In June we published four essays marking the centenary of the birth of Maynard Keynes. A number of readers asked for an article on 1983's other centenarian economist, Joseph Schumpeter. Here it is.

Planting in other regions may help, but suitable areas lack water access and are too far away from juice plants, which means ...

IMF officials now face a dilemma. Do they allow politicians to roll back unpopular policies, in line with their recent more ...

Dominance of India’s economy by a few families is an outcome its post-independence government overtly sought to avoid. Various laws passed between 1947 and 1969 sought to curtail the growth of large ...

Bangladesh stopped exporting the fish to India between 2012 and 2022 over a water-sharing dispute. But it usually made an ...

In recent months, though, the industry has been fraying at the seams. A months-long crackdown on student-led protests, which included a brutally imposed curfew, curtailed economic activity. Even after ...

The latest news in US politics, with coverage of President Joe Biden, Kamala Harris and the Democrats, Donald Trump and the ...

Norway’s GDP per person is $94,600, some 11% higher than America’s. The country’s unemployment rate is 2%. Growth, though ...

Not long ago America’s main concern with sovereign-wealth funds was how to regulate these large pools of money controlled by ...

Diversification, goes an adage attributed to the late Harry Markowitz, is the only free lunch in investing. The idea later ...

Even without Donald Trump on the ballot, American elections tend to create conflict. America is the only proper presidential democracy in which the person who wins the most votes does not necessarily ...