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By  Anders Åslund STOCKHOLM – Wars are expensive, as the Russian people are now learning.

By  J. Bradford DeLong J. Bradford DeLong, a former deputy assistant US Treasury secretary, is Professor of Economics at the University of California at Berkeley and a research associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research.

By Elizabeth Drew Elizabeth Drew is a contributing editor to The New Republic and the author, most recently, of Washington Journal: Reporting Watergate and Richard Nixon’s Downfall.

By Sandile Hlatshwayo and Michael Spence Sandile Hlatshwayo recently received her PhD in Economics from the University of California at Berkeley and will join the International Monetary Fund in the fall.

By Carl Bildt CHICAGO – We are now in the final days of the industrial age.

PARIS – I vividly remember French presidential candidate Marine Le Pen’s first appearance on television.

By Nancy Birdsall and Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala LAGOS – The countries of Sub-Saharan Africa have reached a critical juncture.

NEW DELHI – India’s parliamentary system, inherited from the British, is rife with ineffiencies.

By Tony Karon NEW YORK – US President Donald Trump’s administration has shocked the mainstream press by bullying news outlets and unabashedly trafficking in “alternative facts” (also known as lies).

By Kent Harrington Kent Harrington, a former senior CIA analyst, served as National Intelligence Officer for East Asia, Chief of Station in Asia, and the CIA’s Director of Public Affairs.

By Nina L Khrushcheva MOSCOW – Donald Trump’s transition from US President-elect to taking power recalls nothing so much as a forgotten Hollywood genre: the paranoid melodrama.

By Ngaire Woods OXFORD – Democratic governments in the West are increasingly losing their bearings.

By J. Bradford DeLong BERKELEY – I recently heard former World Trade Organization Director-General Pascal Lamy paraphrasing a classic Buddhist proverb, wherein China’s Sixth Buddhist Patriarch Huineng tells the nun Wu Jincang: “When the philosopher points at the moon, the fool looks at the finger.”

By Nina L Khrushcheva NEW YORK – “What we love will ruin us,” predicted Aldous Huxley in 1932.

By Joseph E Stiglitz Joseph E Stiglitz, recipient of the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences in 2001 and the John Bates Clark Medal in 1979, is University Professor at Columbia University, Co-Chair of the High-Level Expert Group on the Measurement of Economic Performance and Social Progress at the OECD, and Chief Economist of the Roosevelt Institute.

By Joseph E Stiglitz   NEW YORK – To say that the eurozone has not been performing well since the 2008 crisis is an understatement.

By Ali H Mokdad   SEATTLE – Data can save lives.

By Peter D Sutherland   LONDON – Migration continues to dominate political debate in many countries.

ISTANBUL/KUALA LUMPUR – Last September, world leaders made a commitment to end hunger by 2030, as part of the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).

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