The real estate investors are capitalizing on the rapid growth of the education sector in the MENA region. Earlier, their investments remained limited to the conventional sectors like retail, hotels, offices and residences. But now they are pumping massive capital into building schools and student accommodation. What’s driving them to this sector is its relatively low volatility amid the …

  Long before artificial intelligence brings about the singularity, algorithms are having an influence over our most important decisions, including which candidate to back in elections. The danger this could go too far is real and we probably need some well-considered regulatory intervention. Earlier this week, the U.S. psychologist Robert Epstein published a harsh article about Google’s alleged manipulation of …

  One of the most striking ways in which Narendra Modi’s government has changed the policy narrative in India is to make manufacturing central to its ambitions. This is an overdue recognition of the fact that India — whose workforce is overwhelmingly poor and underemployed, and growing at the rate of a million people every month — needs to create …