In 2014 Robin Greenwood and Andrei Shleifer, both of Harvard University, found that investors did not expect higher returns ...

Ms Badenoch is part of the problem. She is, if anything, simply too interesting for government. For a public tired of ...

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Our papal tracker: would you bet money on the next pope? For this conclave these kingmakers are said to include Timothy Dolan ...

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Israel’s cabinet changed course on Gaza in dramatic fashion. It decided to “expand” military operations in the strip again ...

By using terms like “child mutilation” and campaigning hard on a painful issue for those parents and children directly ...

New ideas are being tested to counter fibre-optic drones. Both sides are constructing nets over key roads and positions, but ...

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Kenneth Rogoff is a professor at Harvard University and the author of “Our Dollar, Your Problem: An Insider’s View of Seven ...