Opinion

By Zaki Laïdi The shambolic diplomacy between US President Donald Trump’s administration and Iran provides further evidence that world affairs have become unintelligible. But take a step back and you will see that all of today’s major conflicts are of a piece, and that despite...

The United Nation’s re cent proposal to move beyond GDP is a significant step that economic or thodoxy has governed policy making since World War II. In its significant report titled ‘A Compass for Progress for People and Planet’, the UN has evaluated that the...

The two mainstream ruling parties in Britain—Labour and the Tories—are using the children’s party game of ‘Musical Chairs’ as a political strategy to abandon democratic accountability, even as the quality of life and dignity of citizenship shrinks across the country, as food banks, poverty, unemployment...

When the German soccer player Deniz Undav scored two late-game goals to clinch a 2-1 victory for his team over the Ivory Coast, you would have been hard-pressed to find many German fans who did not see him as a national hero. Few cared that...

Melvin Durai   My wife and I have a flower garden in front of our house and a vegetable garden at the back. I do the digging and planting in the garden, and my wife contributes by asking important questions, such as “Why are there...

Máximo Torero The recent memorandum of understanding between the United States and Iran promises to restore the flow of oil, natural gas, sulfur, and fertilizers through the Strait of Hormuz, easing pressure on agricultural markets and reducing the risk of a deeper global food security...

Carlos Alvarado-Quesada & Mokgweetsi Masisi   Last year, at the inaugural Berlin Climate Mobility Forum, leaders from vulnerable countries across Africa, South Asia, the Pacific, the Caribbean, and beyond highlighted an urgent yet often overlooked reality: climate change threatens not only the planet, but also...

Ajit Ranade Chief Economic Adviser V Anantha Nageswaran has done a great service by saying something many parents, students and policymakers do not want to hear: that the old automatic premium attached to software degrees and MBAs is vanishing. The globalisation-era formula was simple. Get...

Ayodhya is projected as more than a temple. It is presented as a civilisational project, a symbol of faith, national pride and collective sacrifice. Millions of devotees contributed money, trust and emotion to what was portrayed as a sacred endeavour transcending politics and commerce. That...

Multilateral development banks (MDBs), chief among them the World Bank, were established to provide capital to developing countries that couldn't raise it at home or on affordable terms abroad. For decades, they filled that gap. But as more countries move from low- to middle-income status...