International Selection

China remains – per capita – a poor country, despite its phenomenal headline GDP growth over the past four decades. A column by Nancy Qian.

President Biden's infrastructure plan is rife with opportunities for earmarked pork-barrel projects and crony capitalist corporate welfare. A column by Michael J. Boskin.

Russia today increasingly resembles nothing so much as the late USSR, ruled at the time by a different KGB man, Yuri Andropov. A column by Sławomir Sierakowski.

When the pandemic seemed to have waned, New Delhi missed taking precautions against a possible second wave that many warned could be even more devastating. A column by Shashi Tharoor.

Russia is hardly the only emerging economy struggling nowadays. But none owes its current travails to a similar level of self-harm. A column by Anders Åslund.

A successful Russian revisionist agenda would not stop with the reconquest of Kyiv, but rather would seek to unravel Europe’s entire post-Cold War security order. A column by Carl Bildt.

Basically, the economic shock in the US turned out to be short-lived – for three reasons: vaccines, human nature, and Bidenomics. A column by Stephen S. Roach.

Fiscal and monetary authorities should shape recovery policies with two broad goals in mind: fostering strong and inclusive income and consumption growth. A column by Laura Tyson.

A fairer tax system would not solve all of America’s economic problems on its own. But it would be a significant step in the right direction. A column by Daron Acemoglu.

The more we use data to make decisions, the more sensitive we must be to the fact that data paint an expert’s- or machine’s-eye view. A column by Diane Coyle.

The most decisive reform in the United States would be a «destination-based cash flow tax». A column by Alan J. Auerbach.

The new American President knows Poland and Ukraine well. His current restraint is thoroughly calculated. A column by Sławomir Sierakowski.