Global governance is the mantra of our era’s elite.The surge in cross-border flows of goods, services, capital and information produced by technological innovation and market liberalisation has made the world’s countries too interconnected, their argument goes, for any country to

Are economists partly responsible for Donald Trump’s shocking victory in the US presidential election?Even if they may not have stopped Trump, economists would have had a greater impact on the public debate had they stuck closer to their discipline’s teaching, instead of siding w

We seem to be living in an accelerated age of revolutionary technological breakthroughs.

The global trade system faces an important turning point at the end of this year, one that was postponed when China joined the World Trade Organisation (WTO) almost 15 years ago.The United States and the European Union must decide whether they will begin to treat China as a “mark

The global trade regime has never been very popular in the United States.

Perhaps the only surprising thing about the populist backlash that has overwhelmed the politics of many advanced democracies is that it has taken so long.Even two decades ago, it was easy to predict that mainstream politicians’ unwillingness to offer remedies for the insecurities

The Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) — a mega trade deal covering 12 countries that together account for more than one-third of global GDP and a quarter of world exports — is the latest battleground in the decades-long confrontation between proponents and opponents of trade agreem

In mid-December, the United Nations will launch the latest of its annual landmark Human Development Reports.

Following 15 years of hype, a new conventional wisdom has taken hold: emerging markets are in deep trouble.