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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

Barber’s approach is not solving economic malaise

47 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

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Corruption: a showdown looms at crossroads between law and politics

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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54 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
58 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

Concert of Europe gives way to the cacophony of the world

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75 day(s) ago

The wave of post-Cold War globalisation has, paradoxically, accelerated fragmentation, affecting democratic and nondemocratic countries alike, writes Dominique Moisi

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
51 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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51 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
55 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
57 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
61 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

Learning from Fukushima nuclear disaster and its aftermath

Police officers wearing protective suits and masks inside the no-go zone around the nuclear plant at Fukushima Prefecture this month. Picture: REUTERS
62 day(s) ago

Web-based platform to help build local knowledge for cleanup, while another project models future distribution of radioactivity, write Shinichi Nakayama and Ian McKinley

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