By Mario I. Blejer and Piroska Nagy Mohácsi BUENOS AIRES — After more than a year of aggressive monetary tightening, inflation in the United States and around the world is finally trending down.

By Biniam Bedasso and Susannah HaresLONDON — There is growing concern that children in developing countries are not learning enough in school.

By Dani Rodrik, Réka Juhász, and Nathan LaneCAMBRIDGE — As policymakers around the world embrace industrial policy in pursuit of a wide variety of objectives, supply-chain resilience, green technologies, geopolitical advantage, good jobs, the debate over its effectiveness is

By Stacy Mitchell and Ron KnoxWASHINGTON, DC — In the summer of 1982, the United States government sent corporate America a love letter.

By Lawrence H. Summers and N.K. SinghCAMBRIDGE — The world is literally on fire this summer. Experts estimate that another COVID-level public health threat is likely to emerge in the next generation.

By Joseph E. Stiglitz and Tommaso FaccioNEW YORK — It has now been over two years since G7 leaders announced a groundbreaking agreement to divvy up taxation of multinational corporations’ profits.

By Jayati Ghosh, Sandrine Dixson-Declève, and Johannah BernsteinNEW DELHI — The recent Paris Summit for a New Global Financing Pact was touted by its organisers, including French President Emmanuel Macron, as a groundbreaking initiative to forge a “new contract” between the Globa

By William Ruto and Fatih BirolNAIROBI/PARIS — Many people associate technologies like solar and wind power with efforts to tackle climate change. But for the world’s most vulnerable populations, they are much more than a clean-energy solution.

By Håvard Halland, Justin Yifu Lin and Alan GelbBEIJING — Although French President Emmanuel Macron’s recent Summit for a New Global Financing Pact produced a “roadmap” towards reforming the global financial system, the proposed reforms are unlikely to mobilise private capit