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By  Howard Davies LONDON – In the Forbes list of the World’s Most Powerful People for 2012, Ben Bernanke, then the chair of the US

By Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala   GENEVA – It is not often that trade negotiators get a chance simultaneously to protect vulnerable people

By Mohamed A. El-Erian   CAMBRIDGE – Economic-policy discussions in the eurozone, the United Kingdom, and the United States

By Joseph E. Stiglitz   NEW YORK – It appears that the international community is moving toward what many are calling a historic

By Andrés Velasco   LONDON – “The era of big government is over,” then-US President Bill Clinton proclaimed in 1996. But

By Nouriel Roubini   NEW YORK – In April, I warned that today’s extremely loose monetary and fiscal policies, when combined with

By Kaushik Basu   ITHACA – The World Bank’s Global Economic Prospects (GEP) report, published twice a year, is the most important

By Jayati Ghosh   NEW DELHI – Once again, emerging markets are on the capital-flows roller coaster – one no less dizzying for

By Daniel Gros   BRUSSELS – Trade is recovering robustly alongside the upticks in growth in major economies. This good news

By James K. Galbraith   AUSTIN – In a recent commentary for The Washington Post, former US Secretary of the Treasury Lawrence H.