This article was co-authored with Fred Hu, Chairman and Founder of Primavera Capital Group, a China-based global investment firm. MILAN – Uncertainty about China’s economic prospects is roiling gl…

This article was co-authored with Sandile Hlatshwayo. She recently received her PhD in Economics from the University of California at Berkeley and will join the International Monetary Fund in the fal…

MILAN – The first round of the French election turned out much as expected: the centrist Emmanuel Macron finished first, with 24% of the vote, rather narrowly beating the right-wing National Front’s …

MILAN – It took a long time for widening inequality to have an impact on politics, as it suddenly has done in recent years. Now that it is a central issue, national economic priorities will need to s…

MILAN – There is no question that the recovery from the global recession triggered by the 2008 financial crisis has been unusually lengthy and anemic. Some still expect an upswing in growth. But, eig…