"The scramble for business in Africa" - David Pilling

Led by China, countries from Turkey to India are looking for opportunities

"The Hollowing Out of the G20" - Ana Palacio

Since helping to mitigate the global financial crisis, the G20 has degenerated from a platform for action to a forum for discussion. In the age of Donald Trump, it could sink even further, becoming a vehicle for legitimating illegal behavior, from Russia's aggression in Ukraine to Saudi Arabia's murder of a journalist.

"China eyes role as world’s power supplier" - James Kynge e Lucy Hornby

Beijing promotes global electricity network to absorb huge power surpluses

"PHANTOM DEMOCRACY: A PUZZLE AT THE HEART OF CHINESE POLITICS" - John Keane

The notion of a globally menacing ‘authoritarian China’ is too simplistic. Dig deeper, and you will find signs of local democratic experiments, thanks to its skittish rulers afraid of losing control

"The Big Blockchain Lie" - Nouriel Roubini

Now that cryptocurrencies such as Bitcoin have plummeted from last year's absurdly high valuations, the techno-utopian mystique of so-called distributed-ledger technologies should be next. The promise to cure the world's ills through "decentralization" was just a ruse to separate retail investors from their hard-earned real money.

"Understanding right and left populisms" - Samir Gandesha

Neoliberal globalization has increased both economic insecurity and cultural anxiety. Have theories of populism taken adequate account of such insecurity? We can only distinguish left from right populisms if we do.

"Working Toward the Next Economic Paradigm" - Mohamed A. El-Erian

Building support for a new unifying economic paradigm to replace the discredited Washington Consensus will be an analytically challenging, politically demanding, and time-consuming process. In the meantime, both economists and policymakers must ensure that the existing paradigm doesn't cause more damage than it already has.

"America First — Or Against All?" - Jean-François Boittin

To Trump, everything in politics – even at the global trade stage – is about him personally and how it affects his business interests.

"The Bitcoin Threat" - Harold James

Unless a currency has been authenticated by a government, it is unlikely to be fully trusted. But that does not mean that it cannot become a plaything for the naïve and gullible, or a weapon of financial mass destruction for political belligerents around the world.

"AN ECONOMY FOR THE 99%"

New estimates show that just eight men own the same wealth as the poorest half of the world. As growth benefits the richest, the rest of society – especially the poorest – suffers. The very design of our economies and the principles of our economics have taken us to this extreme, unsustainable and unjust point. Our economy must stop excessively rewarding those at the top and start working for all people. Accountable and visionary governments, businesses that work in the interests of workers and producers, a valued environment, women’s rights and a strong system of fair taxation, are central to this more human economy.

"Globalization is stuck in a trap. What will it be when it breaks free?" - Yanis Varoufakis

Globalization's foundations are rotting away, spawning parochialism, nativism and xenophobia. If this stage of capitalism is not sustainable, what in the world comes next?

"The Globalization of Our Discontent" - Joseph E. Stiglitz

Globalization, which was supposed to benefit developed and developing countries alike, is now reviled almost everywhere, as the political backlash in Europe and the US in recent years has shown. The challenge is to minimize the risk that the backlash will intensify, and that starts by understanding – and avoiding – past mistakes.

"The Global Economy in 2018" - Michael Spence

The global economy will confront serious challenges in the months and years ahead, and looming in the background is a mountain of debt that makes markets nervous – and that thus increases the system's vulnerability to destabilizing shocks. Yet the baseline scenario seems to be one of continuity, with no obvious convulsions on the horizon.

"The Two Backlashes Against Globalization" - Shashi Tharoor

The reaction against globalization has taken two forms: economic resistance to rising inequality and a revolt against multiculturalism and cosmopolitanism. To save globalization – which has lifted hundreds of millions out of poverty, created new markets for goods made by poor countries, and reduced prices for rich-country consumers – both must be addressed.

"Trump and the Truth About Climate Change" - Joseph E. Stiglitz

Under President Donald Trump’s leadership, the United States took another major step toward establishing itself as a rogue state on June 1, when it withdrew from the Paris climate agreement. For years, Trump has indulged the strange conspiracy theory that, as he put it in 2012, “The concept of global warming was created by and for the Chinese in order to make US manufacturing non-competitive.” But this was not the reason Trump advanced for withdrawing the US from the Paris accord. Rather, the agreement, he alleged, was bad for the US and implicitly unfair to it.

"Revisiting the Global Order" - Javier Solana

As many analysts have observed, the Pax Americana of recent decades is on life support. After the first 150 days of Donald Trump’s “America First” – or, more accurately, “America Alone” – presidency, it seems that America’s traditional stabilizing role can no longer be viewed as a given. As the primacy of the US in the international arena – and, thus, America’s status as the world’s “indispensable nation” – erodes, other states and even non-state actors are gaining prominence. What does this mean for the so-called liberal international order?

"A new international municipalist movement is on the rise – from small victories to global alternatives" - Kate Shea Baird

In a world stuck between neoliberal crisis and authoritarianism, a reinvigorated municipalist movement is proving a powerful tool to build emancipatory alternatives from the ground up.

"Trump’s Rogue America" - Joseph E. Stiglitz

Donald Trump has thrown a hand grenade into the global economic architecture that was so painstakingly constructed in the years after World War II’s end. The attempted destruction of this rules-based system of global governance – now manifested in Trump’s withdrawal of the United States from the 2015 Paris climate agreement – is just the latest aspect of the US president’s assault on our basic system of values and institutions.

"Feiyue: how authentic Chinese trainers became fakes, thanks to France"

We’re used to thinking of China being the land of knock-off goods – but now, thanks to a French company, the shoe is on the other foot

"Africa’s new slave trade: how migrants flee poverty to get sucked into a world of violent crime"

Thousands who dream of a better life in Europe face horrors of modern slavery on way across the Sahara to Libya