LONDON — Like many others, I was shocked by recent images showing the size of the queue that formed in May to scale Mount Everest, the world’s highest peak, from the Nepalese side.

LONDON — Though economics aspires to the rigour of the natural sciences, at the end of the day it is still a social science.

TOKYO — When I participated in the Chatham House/Daiwa Research Institute conference on the post-Brexit Japan-UK relationship in Tokyo last month, it was my first visit back with Japan since my departure from Goldman Sachs almost six years ago.

LONDON — The United Kingdom ranks around 22nd among countries in terms of population. Its economy is somewhere between the fifth- and seventh-largest in the world in terms of nominal GDP (in US dollars), which is comparable to the economies of India and France.

LONDON — To mark the second anniversary of the British government’s review on Antimicrobial Resistance (AMR), which I had the honour of chairing, two members of the review team, Anthony McDonnell and Will Hall, and I have published a new book: “Superbugs: An Arms Race Against Bac

LONDON — On a recent holiday in Vietnam, Cambodia, and Laos, I could not resist thinking about these countries’ economic potential and ongoing policy challenges.

Writing about oil prices is always risky. In January 2015, I suggested that oil prices would not continue to fall, and even predicted that they would “finish the year higher than they were when it began”.

I recently took a trip to Switzerland — a remarkable country that I have been fortunate to visit many times over the past 40 years.

This month, international media are understandably focused on the Chinese Communist Party’s (CCP) 19th National Congress, a carefully choreographed event that will reveal who’s “in” and who’s “out” with Chinese President Xi Jinping.But while it is important to know who Xi’s favou