MUMBAI — Facebook’s new global digital currency, Libra, which the company plans to launch as early as 2020, could transform the world. But no one – including the founders of this ambitious economic engineering project – can fully anticipate the currency’s possible ramifications.

NEW DELHI — When wealthy people espouse left-wing causes, such as redistribution of wealth, those on the right often label them hypocrites.

KOLKATA — At the end of this year of political trauma and conflict, I found myself feeling an unexpected sense of hope, sitting in Mumbai, where I could see the Arabian Sea stretching westward toward the Gulf of Aden and Africa, as well as the vast Indian subcontinent extending e

NEW YORK — At the British Labour Party’s annual conference in Liverpool this month, the shadow chancellor of the exchequer, John McDonnell, proposed a profit-sharing scheme that would grant workers equity in the firms where they are employed.

MUMBAI — One major impetus behind US President Donald Trump’s protectionist policies is his belief that China has artificially weakened its currency in order to dump goods in the United States. Trump harped on this issue often during his presidential campaign.

NEW YORK — “It was the best of times; it was the worst of times,” said President Xi Jinping, quoting Charles Dickens’ famous line to open his speech at the 2017 World Economic Forum.

NEW YORK — Bangladesh has become one of Asia’s most remarkable and unexpected success stories in recent years. Once one of the poorest regions of Pakistan, Bangladesh remained an economic basket case, wracked by poverty and famine, for many years after independence in 1971.

NEW YORK — Around the world, the effects of alarmingly high economic inequality are spilling over into politics and society.

NEW YORK — The World Bank’s annual Doing Business (DB) report is probably its most-cited publication.