Even in recent decades, as India has become the world’s fastest-growing big economy and closes in on being its fourth-largest, it has never matched the pace of Asia’s 20th-century tigers. The goal set ...

Sign up here to receive “The US in brief” as a newsletter, each weekday, in your inbox. Lawmakers reacted with relief after Donald Trump ruled out taking Greenland by force, a ...

THE FOG of war can make it difficult to understand what is happening during a conflict. Sometimes that murkiness can persist long after the guns have fallen silent. That is proving true of the ...

The danger is that Mr Modi’s appetite for reforms may go soft, if they can no longer be sold to his nationalist supporters as a necessary sacrifice to strengthen India in an unfriendly world. The ...

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THE RICH world’s labour market is on a roll. In the past three years the average unemployment rate in the OECD, a club of mostly wealthy countries, has repeatedly hit historical lows. The employment ...

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Its current nominal rate is 0.75%; estimates by central-bank researchers peg Japan’s neutral rate in the range of 1-2.5%, ...

The moral is that, to get America’s president to retreat, you have to convince him that you will impose a price on him. In ...

TikTok has sucked up countless hours of teenagers’ lives. But it has kept plenty of politicians awake past their bedtime, too ...

When he was the Indian government’s chief economist from 2014 to 2018, Arvind Subramanian made a surprising discovery. He drew an unexpectedly large audience for his annual “Economic Survey”, written ...