In the wake of Nepal’s devastating floods, which killed at least 1,300 people, Nepalese officials and others were quick to cite climate change as the...
The International Monetary Fund is conducting a Review of Program Design and Conditionality, its first major evaluation since 2019, before the COVID-19 pandemic. With so many...
In keeping with the adage that history never repeats itself but often rhymes, I suspect that we could soon see developments in international macroeconomic policy...
For much of the twentieth century, the social contract around higher education was relatively simple. A young person studied hard, went to university, earned a...
Few people remember that in the 1950s tens of thousands of people in the western world spent hours each day in an iron lung –...
As the pillars of the post-1945 global order—support for human rights, multilateral cooperation, the rule of law, humanitarian aid, and environmental stewardship—crumble, and as country...
The global demographic transition, characterized by declining birth rates and rising life expectancy, has been one of the most consequential transformations of the past century,...
