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By Célestin Monga   ABIDJAN – West African political leaders recently announced that the CFA franc – a currency created by France

By George Soros   MUNICH – Neither the European public nor European political and business leaders fully understand the threat

By Carlos Lopes   CAPE TOWN – African heads of state and government are convening at the annual African Union (AU) summit, and

By Andrés Velasco   LONDON – Cosmopolitanism gets plenty of bad press nowadays. “Cosmopolitan” is often paired with “elites,” as

By Kenneth Rogoff   LONDON – Will the next recession be worse than you think? With the major central banks having little space

By Raphaël Hadas-Lebel   PARIS – A year after a proposed fuel tax triggered the gilets jaunes (yellow vest) protests, France

By Colin Coleman   NEW HAVEN – Africa today accounts for around 17% of the world’s population, but only about 3% of global GDP.

By Stephen S. Roach   NEW HAVEN – With the benefit of full-year data, only now are we becoming aware of the danger the global

By Joseph E. Stiglitz   DAVOS – This year marked the 50th anniversary of the World Economic Forum’s flagship meeting of the

By Yanis Varoufakis   ATHENS – Steven Mnuchin, US President Donald Trump’s treasury secretary, outraged liberal commentators at