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A man looks at an electronic board displaying a news photo of Bank of Japan governor Haruhiko Kuroda in Tokyo, Japan, in May.  Picture: REUTERS

Central banking’s new face

8 hour(s) ago

Abenomics and the Bank of Japan are already changing debates about the relationship between central banks and governments, writes Paola Subacchi

TERROR: A police officer carries flowers near the scene of the killing of a British soldier in Woolwich, southeast London, on Wednesday. Picture: REUTERS

There is no problem with Islam

But there is a problem within Islam, and we have to put it on the table and be honest about it, writes Tony Blair

Barber’s approach is not solving economic malaise

Former US Treasury Secretary Lawrence H. Summers speaks during a financial and economic event at the London School of Economics in London last month.  Picture: REUTERS
74 day(s) ago

Lawrence Summers has called for a macroeconomic rethink of a Keynesian magnitude, but a latter-day Keynes is lacking, writes J Bradford DeLong

Corruption: a showdown looms at crossroads between law and politics

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75 day(s) ago

National Planning Commission’s recipe for fighting corruption ignores the Constitutional Court’s binding findings in the Glenister case, writes Paul Hoffman

Nuclear disarmament push needs China on board

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81 day(s) ago

The stalled quest for a world without nuclear weapons needs a trilateral framework for negotiation that includes China, writes Richard Weitz

Brics at risk of crumbling under weight of individual agendas

Brazillian President Dilma Rousseff, then Russian president Dmitry Medvedev, Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, then Chinese president Hu Jintao and South African President Jacob Zuma at the annual  Brics Summit in New Delhi in 2012. Picture: REUTERS
86 day(s) ago

Whatever the goal of the Brics Development Bank, it must be identified and its risks addressed if the Brics are to make real progress, writes Jaswant Singh

Free elections are last hope for dying Iraq

DESTRUCTION: A bulldozer tries to extinguish a burning vehicle at the site of a bomb attack in Baghdad last week. Car bombs hit four Shi'ite mosques in the Iraqi capital and another in Kirkuk just after prayers on Friday, killing 17. Picture: REUTERS
78 day(s) ago

If Iraq continues along its current disastrous path, mayhem and civil war will be the inevitable outcome, writes Ayad Allawi

China’s hidden debt risk: not too big to fail

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78 day(s) ago

China is experiencing an elevated debt risk, characterised by high levels of accumulated local government and corporate debt, writes Zhang Monan

A leaf out of the wrong book

A man picks up a copy of a newspaper after the budget announcement by Britain's Chancellor of the Exchequer, George Osborne, in March, 2013.  Picture: REUTERS
82 day(s) ago

African National Congress might get ideas from British parliament’s recent approval of press regulator with powers to impose heavy fines, writes Raymond Louw

India’s five thoughts on China

The Taj Mahal in India. Picture: THINKSTOCK
84 day(s) ago

India should cautiously welcome China’s recognition of their deepening relationship, but be guided by China’s capabilities as well as what its leaders say, writes Sanjaya Baru

Risking it all, without even realising it

A nuclear bomb test in the US state of Nevada in June 1957. Picture: THINKSTOCK
88 day(s) ago

We are in denial about the potentially devastating unintended consequences of the misuse of fast-developing 21st-century technologies, writes Martin Rees

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