India’s government will shortly find itself at a fork in the road. Will it choose globalisation and export-oriented growth? Or will the isolationists in the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) win, and keep India out of a giant Indo-Pacific trading bloc? This weekend, New Delhi hosted negotiators for the Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership (RCEP) – from the 10 members of ...

It is not easy being in Christine Lagarde’s shoes. The incoming president of the European Central Bank (ECB) has not yet presided over her first Governing Council meeting, but she will have to face down a revolt over the central bank’s decision to restart quantitative easing before she even starts. Lagarde may want to thank Mario Draghi for pushing through ...

For years, thriving cities in coastal regions of the US have become increasingly expensive to live in. As cities such as San Francisco, New York City, Los Angeles and Seattle became more attractive, thanks to booming knowledge industries and falling crime, rents soared: And for almost as long, people have been hotly debating what to do about the problem. Many ...