Opinion

Mervyn King, former governor of the Bank of England, has written the best article I've read on Britain's exit from the European Union. In an essay...

In many Western democracies, right-wing populists, energised by self-proclaimed victories over “establishment elites,” are doubling down on the claim...

The fallout of the oil price slump does not mean Oman’s economy is heading for hard times or that the country is edging closer towards bankruptcy. There...

Data can save lives. Without it, we wouldn’t know that smoking causes lung cancer and coronary disease, that helmets reduce death rates for motorcycle...

China has always valued education, reflecting its Confucian tradition, according to which one must excel scholastically to achieve high professional and...

Development economists often differ with one another, but they agree on this: The knowledge economy will be the foundation of every nation’s progress in...

Barely a month after the demise of Abdul Sattar Edhi — arguably, the greatest philanthropist in modern history, Pakistan has had to lose its first...

Politicians and philanthropists often talk about abstract, lofty ideas such as sustainability and transformation through dialogue. So Bill Gates and Indian...