Because of their relatively short tenure in one position before promotion, Chinese officials are under enormous pressure to demonstrate their ability to produce economic results quickly.

European membership should be reduced to those countries with convergent economic structures and performance

Making the right policy choices – to build resilience and pursue a sustainable pathway to shared prosperity – will prepare Asia and the Pacific to flourish in the context of sustained global uncertainty.

Given the dubious benefits of still lower real interest rates, placing central-bank credibility at risk would be irresponsible.

The first step is to stop viewing international trade as a zero-sum game that costs some countries as much as it benefits others.

Democratized medicine represents the fullest flowering of the biomedical information revolution.

But the core of the relationship is simple: China needs US innovation to grow, and the US needs Chinese markets to grow.

People relate much more readily to a friend dying of cancer than they do to statistics about strangers suffering from the consequences of testing.

More important, the US and the international community can work to ensure that the bulk of the funds go not to the military and to business-as-usual politicians, but to grassroots causes and groups.

Worse, while many Asian states have embraced the West’s economic values, they reject its political values.

His tirade in 2000 against the liberal reforms that have transformed countries like India and China into global growth engines, reduced poverty,...shows that he lacked good judgment on fundamental issues.

Ultimately, there can be no strong Germany without a stable eurozone; no stable eurozone without a strong Germany; and no global economic stability without both.

The US should reconsider antiquated Cold War restrictions on Chinese purchases of technology-intensive items.

The permanent public provision of cheap credit would ultimately lead to a lingering infirmity, if not to Europe’s economic collapse

China, India, Brazil, Turkey, and others may have firms operating close to the world’s technological frontier, but they still have a lot of unused catch-up potential.