Comment

The clientelist system has become the main threat to Putin’s political survival. The the lack of credible property rights forces rich Russians to hold their money abroad. A column by Anders Åslund.

African governments, with international support, can help students’ transition from school to work by relying on a curriculum that elevates the importance of soft skills. A column by Kim Kerr.

A euro-dollar exchange rate around current levels is what we should want, since developments that could cause the currency to move away from current levels are undesirable. A column by Barry Eichengreen.

A decade after the start of the crisis, advanced economies still have not decisively pivoted away from a growth model that is overly reliant on liquidity and leverage. A column by Mohamed A. El-Erian.

The proposed nuclear-ban treaty could complicate efforts to reduce nuclear arsenals, deepen the gap between nuclear- and non-nuclear states, and increase the risk of a nuclear war. A column by Carl Bildt.

The West needs real investments and higher productivity and wage growth – not more economically unjustifiable profits. A column by Jim O’Neill.

Today’s European strongmen have retained popular support by maintaining the relative economic freedom on which long-term prosperity depends. A column by Daniel Gros.

Avoiding a war is still the world’s best bet – a fact that even the turbulent Trump administration seems to recognize. But that will require cooperation from China. A column by Minghao Zhao.

Venezuela’s economic catastrophe dwarfs any in the history of the US, Western Europe, or the rest of Latin America. A column by Ricardo Hausmann.

When policymakers scrambled in search of «big bazookas» ten years ago, they set the stage for the return of an old character: a strongman willing to pull the trigger. A column by Harold James.

The Chinese economy is in the midst of a structural transformation. Nevertheless it is more stable than Japan or western industrialized countries. A commentary by Stephen R. Roach.

The same angst that Americans and Europeans have about the future of jobs is an order of magnitude higher in Asia. A column by Kenneth Rogoff.