Melinda French Gates on how leaders can boost women’s economic power
The case for doing so has never been stronger, argues the philanthropist
EARLIER THIS year I contacted a few African development experts for their views on the continent’s priorities. Our conversation centred on issues like debt restructuring and taxation policy, but just as we were wrapping up, one of them, a Ghanaian economist, offered a different piece of advice: “Don’t stop talking about gender.”
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The boss of Siemens on how to re-energise the German economy
More must be done to nurture innovators while driving the completion of the European project, writes Roland Busch
Dan Hendrycks warns America against launching a Manhattan Project for AI
The conditions in which the atomic bomb was produced can’t be replicated in the race for superintelligence, writes the AI-safety expert
Ekrem Imamoglu’s wife on how his arrest has turned a mayor into a movement
Recep Tayyip Erdogan can’t defeat democracy, says Dilek Imamoglu
The global trading system needs new rules, not tariffs, say Wally Adeyemo and Joshua Zoffer
A former deputy treasury secretary and a presidential economic adviser on the need to draw a sharper line between open economies and the rest
Donald Trump’s unwillingness to heed allies’ advice is foreign-policy folly, writes Gary Bass
From Korea to Cuba, America has been at its best diplomatically when it has encouraged its friends to be candid
An ex-head of the FTC and his co-author lament the politicisation of antitrust enforcement
Undermining regulatory independence in America and Britain will deter investment, write William Kovacic and John Vickers