Highlights: Technological and institutional progress often fails to serve the public good; Bangladesh's watchdog institutions increasingly imitate the power they were meant to che ...

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Why do some nations flourish while others remain impoverished? That question remains as relevant as ever—especially after Sri Lanka’s painful economic struggles in 2022, and more recently, the crises ...

While many commentators warn that AI will undermine employment and offer only modest productivity gains, empirical studies continue to suggest otherwise. With the right policies in place, the technolo ...

On Tuesday, a collective shudder ran down the spine of America's white-collar workforce. Amazon announced it's laying off ...

Senators probe Amazon's 10K+ H-1B visas in 2025 while cutting 30K U.S. jobs and planning to replace 600K roles with robots by ...

As AI investment floods into Southeast Asia, governments should be neither AI optimists nor pessimists, but pragmatists.

Recently, democratic countries from the Global North and South – including Brazil, Chile, Norway, and Spain – came together at the United Nations not just to reaffirm ...

The 2025 Nobel Prize in Economics has been awarded to three eminent economists; Joel Mokyr, Philippe Aghion, and Peter Howitt, for their work demonstrating the critical role of public investment in ...

Big Tech is firing thousands even as it pours billions into artificial intelligence. The Great Tech Paradox of the 21st ...

Smith reoriented the debate toward specialization and the division of labor; Ricardo formalized trade gains; Marx ...