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Saturday 29/September/2018 14:46 PM

Education’s moonshot moment

Starting in the late 1940s, an exceptional group of visionaries responded to the devastation of World War II by coming together to build new institutions...

Saturday 29/September/2018 14:43 PM

Justice or democracy in Brazil?

Brazil’s upcoming presidential election – its ninth since the restoration of democracy in 1985 – will take place against a bleak background, and not...

Saturday 29/September/2018 14:41 PM

What China can gain from Trump’s trade war

The world’s two largest economies – China and the United States – are engaged in a full-blown trade war, and what US president Donald Trump hoped...

Saturday 29/September/2018 14:38 PM

Managing the global factor better

Imagine a world in which the annual meetings of the International Monetary Fund were more client-driven. Ahead of the gathering – this year’s will take...

Wednesday 26/September/2018 16:12 PM

Storm warning for the fossil-fuel industry

This has been a year of extreme weather events, from the “Beast from the East” that froze much of the United Kingdom in March to Hurricane Florence on...

Wednesday 26/September/2018 14:46 PM

Governments must stand up for health

It was just a century ago that the Spanish flu epidemic spread across the world and killed tens of millions of people. Long before the moon landing, the...

Wednesday 26/September/2018 14:43 PM

The global cost of domestic violence

Domestic violence costs the world 25 times more than war and terrorism, according to research conducted by James Fearon of Stanford University and Anke...