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A strategy for inclusive growth must empower people by including them in the networks that make them productive. A column by Ricardo Hausmann.

Politicians ought to follow the lesson of the Great Depression: Experiment, then scale up the most successful policies to turn the economy around, as Franklin Delano Roosevelt did. A column by J. Bradford DeLong.

Cultivating India as a reliable partner in the global economy and in international affairs is a high priority for the US as well. Obama’s visit to India can help to realize that relationship’s potential. A column by Martin Feldstein.

In 2015, «divergence» will be a major global economic theme, applying to economic trends, policies, and performance. These divergences will become increasingly difficult to reconcile. A column by Mohamed A. El-Erian

To complete monetary union Europe's political union will have to be deepened further: to lay down its rights and obligations in a renewed institutional order. A column by Mario Draghi.

The US presidential candidate who, in the 2016 campaign, will convincingly promote imposing greater constraints on the big banks, will have a good chance of winning it all. A column by Simon Johnson

Health-care reform is just one example in which government can deliver what the public wants by setting goals, encouraging creativity, and providing the resources to scale up what works. A column by Laura Tyson.

The problem is that in many countries, both developed and developing, the current relationship between the private sector and the government is often dysfunctional. A column by Ricardo Hausmann.

The administration of Prime Minister Modi plans to invest heavily in the expansion of IT. The potential benefits of this strategy are enormous. A column by Raghunath A. Mashelkar.

The real reasons for the Kremlin's aggressive revisionism are the effects of the 2007–2008 financial crisis on global politics. A column by Harold James.

Taxes on information and communications technology are the modern-day equivalent of eating the grain you were saving to plant next year. A column by Robert D. Atkinson.

Calling for more investment is superficially always attractive. The often-invoked investment gap is mostly a result of wishful thinking. A column by Daniel Gros.