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From politics to fiscal policy, French fumbles reflect the failure of European centrists

New Delhi, Oct. 22 -- Even by the dysfunctional standards of France's recent political trajectory, it has been an eventful month in Paris. A prime minister resigned after failing to push through fisca... Read More


From Bangalore to Delhi: When modern airports meet outdated rules

New Delhi, Oct. 9 -- A couple of years ago, as I went through security check at Bengaluru's swanky international terminal, complete with wall gardens and food franchises of companies owned by celebrit... Read More


Trump's Fed appointee Stephen Miran has policy ideas that perplex economists and investors alike

New Delhi, Sept. 24 -- Through one of the strangest twists in economic history, Stephen Miran, chief economic advisor to US President Donald Trump and newly appointed member of the Federal Reserve's b... Read More


Rahul Jacob: China hype's sprucing up its image at home and abroad

New Delhi, Sept. 10 -- A gargantuan military parade, complete with state-of-the-art stealth carrier-based fighter jets, tanks with optical sensors and militarized robots, might seem an odd setting fro... Read More


Why Jagdish Bhagwati isn't overly worried about world trade

New Delhi, Aug. 27 -- Jagdish Bhagwati, the great trade economist, begins his conversation by reminiscing about a Canadian professor, Harry Johnson, who was an early influence on him because the profe... Read More


Rahul Jacob: Climate change has begun to warp the travel calendar

New Delhi, Aug. 14 -- There is arguably no catastrophe that the world has collectively faced as severe as the effects of global warming, besides the threat of nuclear war. Amid floods in the Himalayas... Read More


Rahul Jacob: High rich-world debt is a worry we must all confront

New Delhi, July 30 -- Policy reports from multilateral institutions are often an antidote to insomnia. But not theGlobal Debt Report 2025 released by the OECD in March. It has characteristics that com... Read More