Albert R. Hunt Years ago, the conservative activist Grover Norquist was the guest speaker in a class I teach at the University of Pennsylvania. “Older people are the base of the Democratic Party,” he told the class of predominantly liberal Ivy League students. “Do you know what they do every day? Die.” Ironically, Norquist’s argument, that Democrats were on ...

Mohamed A. El-Erian Since the onset of the global financial crisis, I have pointed out that advanced economies should learn policy lessons from the experience of the developing world. This argument has been reinforced by two developments last week: the destabilization of the pound after the Brexit vote in the U.K., and indications that the U.S. now has less influence ...

  Emirates Business A newly-released report highlights that the UAE is leading the Arab world when it comes to generating economic impact from investments in information and communications technologies (ICT). The study, titled the World Economic Forum’s Global Information Technology Report 2016, ranked the UAE 26th globally, just ahead of Qatar (27th) while Kuwait (61st) as one of the world’s ...