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Tuesday 19/December/2017 14:59 PM

New puppet, same puppet master in Poland

Whether Poland’s parliament, the Sejm, would manage to hold a vote on Mateusz Morawiecki’s nomination as prime minister remained unclear until the last...

Monday 18/December/2017 21:55 PM

Pinera recaptures presidency in Chile

Times of Oman designers depict a world around them through illustrations everyday, either to enhance the visual elements of a story or as a standalone...

Monday 18/December/2017 14:39 PM

Can Europe sustain the Macron moment?

At the start of 2017, many feared that the European project would experience a near-breakdown within the next year. The United Kingdom had decided to leave...

Monday 18/December/2017 14:37 PM

Complacency will be tested in 2018

After years of post-crisis despair, the broad consensus of forecasters is now quite upbeat about prospects for the global economy in 2018. World GDP growth...

Monday 18/December/2017 14:34 PM

Is another debt crisis on the way?

Economic growth is accelerating across most of the world. Yet the world’s total gross debt-to-GDP ratio has reached nearly 250 per cent, up from 210 per...

Monday 18/December/2017 14:33 PM

Africa’s must-do decade

Since 2000, Africa has recorded impressive rates of economic growth, owing largely to development assistance and a prolonged commodity boom. While the...

Sunday 17/December/2017 15:16 PM

Surveying the damage of low interest rates

For years after the 2008 financial crisis, policymakers congratulated themselves for having averted a second Great Depression. They had responded to the...

Sunday 17/December/2017 15:14 PM

Inequality in the twenty-first century

At the end of a low and dishonest year, reminiscent of the “low, dishonest decade” about which W.H. Auden wrote in his poem “September 1, 1939,” the...

Sunday 17/December/2017 15:11 PM

Making the most of the Brexit deal

On December 8, the United Kingdom and the European Union’s 27 members settled on some key aspects of the Brexit divorce agreement, opening the way for the...