FORT LAUDERDALE — As one advances in age, one tends to mark each new year by reflecting on the broader developments that have run in parallel with one’s own lifetime.

MILAN — The eighteenth-century British economist Adam Smith has long been revered as the founder of modern economics, a thinker who, in his great works “The Wealth of Nations” and “The Theory of Moral Sentiments”, discerned critical aspects of how market economies funct

MILAN — Western attitudes towards digital technology have soured in recent years, as once-celebrated innovations have begun to reveal their downsides.

MILAN — For much of the post-World War II period, economic policy has focused on unemployment.

MILAN — The global economy is undergoing very large structural shifts, driven by three megatrends. One is the digital transformation of the foundations on which economies are built and run.

MILAN — China’s strategy for economic growth has been a work in progress since Deng Xiaoping launched the country’s “reform and opening up” in 1978.

MILAN — About a decade ago, the Commission on Growth and Development (which I chaired) published a report that attempted to distill 20 years of research and experience in a wide range of countries into lessons for developing economies.

MILAN — The global economy is undergoing a far-reaching transformation.

MILAN — Just before the collapse of the US investment bank Lehman Brothers triggered a financial crisis that would engulf the world economy, the Commission on Growth and Development published an assessment of emerging-economy growth strategies, aimed at drawing lessons from previ