The project is fantastical: A $19 billion investment into semiconductor and display-panel sectors, with the creation of 100,000 jobs in a state with little experience in technology manufacturing. If voters and taxpayers in India’s northwestern Gujarat state are excited about this “landmark investment” they ought to read up on recent Wisconsin history. The US state bought into a similar pipe ...

  If ever there was a time for the best and brightest to make policy, the epic struggle underway against inflation might be a good one. Yet Australia’s central bank is shackled to an anachronistic personnel selection that has left it hostage to an era when little scrutiny was expected — or demanded. Some change is almost certainly coming, but ...

  The UK is taking on a tough target in challenging Microsoft Corp’s $69 billion acquisition of video-game publisher Activision Blizzard Inc. While US and European regulators have yet to opine on the transaction, competition watchdogs are generally becoming more interventionist — especially in the case of tech giants. This deal offers a possible high-profile scalp. Enter the UK Competition ...