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By Andrew Sheng and Xiao Geng   HONG KONG – By disrupting the world’s interconnected economic, social, and geopolitical spheres,

By Howard Davies   LONDON – Four years ago, Kenneth Rogoff, a former chief economist of the International Monetary Fund, made a

By Mohamed A. El-Erian   LAGUNA BEACH – Not a day seems to pass without further evidence of the mounting economic tensions

By Jeffrey D. Sachs     NEW YORK – The G20 ministers of finance meet this week under the auspices of Saudi Arabia, which

By Mo Ibrahim   ABUJA – Last month, the African Union launched the Africa Medical Supplies Platform to facilitate the production

By Abdourahmane Diallo, Lucica Ditiu, and Winnie Byanyima   GENEVA – As the number of confirmed COVID-19 cases in Africa

By Xavier Vives     BARCELONA – The COVID-19 crisis has revealed banks to be not part of the problem for a change, but part

By Robert J. Shiller   NEW HAVEN – The performance of stock markets, especially in the United States, during the coronavirus

By Kenneth Rogoff   CAMBRIDGE – Will COVID-19 finally trigger a long-overdue technological disruption of higher education?

By Dani Rodrik   CAMBRIDGE – As COVID-19 spread from China to Europe and then the United States, pandemic-stricken countries