Bipasha Maity shows that women politicians from historically underrepresented communities have the strongest record.

Bipasha Maity is Assistant Professor of Economics at Ashoka University.

Around the world, authoritarian and populist leaders are eroding civil liberties, weakening democratic checks and balances, and browbeating the press and the judiciary; but rather than taking to the ...

Cristina Caffarra urges policymakers to resist industry lobbying and bolster the continent’s technological independence.

Anne O. Krueger worries that new plans to revitalize the US maritime sector may deepen its self-inflicted decline.

Standard economic frameworks and metrics for assessing economic output have systematically undervalued the dynamic, long-run ...

Sania Nishtar sees an urgent need for global coordination and financing to confront new pathogens with pandemic potential.

US President Donald Trump did not decide to go to war against Iran because he had run out of diplomatic options, or because ...

Gordon Brown urges global support for the NGOs operating underground schools and online programs in defiance of the Taliban.

Timothy Snyder identifies Donald Trump’s authoritarian fantasy and staggering corruption as possible causes of the war.

Christopher Marquis describes a strategy that would enable vaccine makers to revive critical research when the political tides turn.

Cevat Giray Aksoy, Lead Research Economist at the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development, is Associate Professor of Economics at King’s College London.