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Latest documents

• Equality for All
• Making it in India

  Women struggle to break down barriers to starting a business.

• Japan's gender gap

  A lack of gender equality in career opportunity and long work hours perpetuate wage differences.

• Does a minimum wage help workers?

  An overly generous wage may prompt employers to cut jobs.

• The growth forecast puzzle

  With vast technological change afoot, why are long-term growth forecasts becoming more pessimistic?

• A global imperative

  Empowering women is critical for the world’s economy and people.

• Invested in gender diversity

  Asset owners and asset managers push to enhance gender diversity at all leadership levels.

• Class analyst

  Chris Wellisz profiles Branko Milanovic, a leading scholar of inequality.

• Citizenship and growth

  Inclusive citizenship laws tend to foster economic development.

• Dance of the trillions: developing countries and global finance

Featured documents

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  High levels of remittances can spark a vicious cycle of economic stagnation and...

• Agent Provocateur

  Jeremy Clift talks to Hélène Rey, professor of economics at the London Business...

• Women in Charge

  A policy experiment in India suggests that placing female leaders in positions of power can dramatically change public...

• The Internet of Trust

  Created to avoid banks, bitcoin’s blockchain technology may end up helping...

• Monetary Policy in the Digital Age

  Crypto assets may one day reduce demand for central bank...

• Creating fiscal space
• Chained Value

  The growth of multicountry manufacturing is changing how the world’s income and growth are...

• Hidden Value

  Public-private partnerships have been criticized as too costly, but when the whole economic picture is considered, they look much...

• Late  Bloomer

  profiles David Autor, the MIT economist who has done pathbreaking work on the effects of imports on the US labor...

• Safe and Sound 

  International financial regulators help ensure the safety and soundness of diverse financial...