Fernanda Márquez-Padilla is Associate Professor of Economics at El Colegio de México and a visiting professor at the ...

Eswar Prasad considers the economic, financial, and societal implications of digital currencies and payment systems.

Robert H. Frank sees the restoration of progressive income taxation as the only way to shift long-term spending patterns.

Mark Blyth suggests that the United States has very little to gain by reverting to overt imperialism.

Rising US-China frictions and worsening global imbalances have triggered a fundamental reordering of Asia’s manufacturing landscape. The ongoing redirection of trade and investment flows will likely ...

Desmond Lachman thinks the global outlook is clouded by a number of factors, beginning with Donald Trump’s recklessness.

The evidence suggests not, and even raises concerns that age-gating could do more harm than good.

Not surprisingly, Salvadoran President Nayib Bukele’s success in reducing violent crime has led other political leaders across the region to try to take a page from the same playbook. But offering the ...

Don Aviv & Sam Worby say that while the Iran war has put the region between a rock and a hard place, it is at least united – for now.

Can India avoid the dreaded middle-income trap that has ensnared so many other developing countries in Latin America and ...

Bram Govaerts & Sharon Burke warn that a full blockade of the Strait of Hormuz could cause widespread hunger and fuel political unrest.

When the United States and Israel launched their war of choice against Iran, the Islamic Republic pursued the most effective response at its disposal: triggering a spike in global energy prices by ...