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Wednesday 22/November/2017 13:55 PM

Euro zone economy is full of surprises

The surprise economic star of 2017, when it wraps up next month, will have been the euro zone: growth looks set to come in at 2.2 per cent compared with a...

Tuesday 21/November/2017 14:10 PM

A silver lining for a hard Brexit

It is easy to forget that defense and security are not the same thing. Defense is what countries must resort to when their security breaks down. And during...

Tuesday 21/November/2017 14:08 PM

The danger of a post-German Europe

Over the last two centuries, the “German question” – how to contain a Germany whose dominance was buttressed by its commanding size, high productive...

Tuesday 21/November/2017 14:06 PM

Inequality comes to Asia

From China to India, Asian countries’ rapid economic expansion has lifted hundreds of millions of people out of poverty in recent decades. Yet the income...

Monday 20/November/2017 15:15 PM

Saving Somalia through debt relief

Julius Nyerere, the first president of Tanzania, once asked his country’s creditors a blunt question: “Must we starve our children to pay our debts?”...