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Authoritarians' brave new cities
Oped, Robert Muggah & Carlo Ratti, Published on 23/09/2025
» Few policy ideas are as radical -- or as misleadingly packaged -- as "freedom cities". Championed by Silicon Valley's techno-libertarian elite and recently embraced by right-wing politicians like Donald Trump, the idea is to create digitally powered, master-planned enclaves of deregulated innovation.
Future utopias stumble over governance
Oped, Joe Mathews, Published on 20/08/2025
» In 2020, the rapper Akon declared he would build his own eponymous city on the site of the coastal village of Mbodiène, Senegal.
Making sense of the new global economy
Oped, Dambisa Moyo, Published on 13/06/2025
» As the world becomes more volatile and confusing, policymakers, business leaders and investors will need to rethink the mental models they use to analyse the global economy. Specifically, they should pay attention to three structural dynamics that are altering the global landscape: capital flows, demographic shifts and political ideology, which are ushering in a more fragmented and siloed world.
The Trump shock is the Democrat Party's fault
Oped, Daron Acemoglu, Published on 19/11/2024
» The outcome of the US presidential election was more of a Democratic loss than a triumph for Donald Trump. The Democrats lost not because US President Joe Biden stayed in the race too long and not because Kamala Harris is unqualified but because they have been losing workers and failed to win them back.
Who's responsible?
Oped, Postbag, Published on 12/03/2024
» Re: "Key areas 'not in buffer zone'" (BP, Feb 29).
Time for action on low birth rate crisis
Oped, Somchai Jitsuchon, Published on 25/10/2023
» While changes in the criteria determining who is eligible for the old-age allowance by the outgoing Prayut Chan-o-cha government caused a stir, the issue of a low birth rate -- another important aspect of Thailand's aged society -- has not been discussed much.
Asian startups can learn from IPO flops
Oped, Nitin Pangarkar, Published on 04/03/2023
» Almost every startup, if not all, dreams of growing bigger and getting listed on the stock exchange one day.
Unmasking India's crony capitalist oligarchy
Oped, Pranab Bardhan, Published on 17/02/2023
» The recent accounting fraud and stock manipulation allegations against multi-billionaire Gautam Adani made by Hindenburg Research, a New York-based short-selling firm, has startled the financial world. The episode is a necessary reality check for those who are expecting India's star to burn brighter in the global economic firmament as China's dims.
America is fuelling Chinese techno-nationalism
Oped, Keyu Jin, Published on 12/03/2022
» Although the American-born skier Eileen Gu became a darling of the Chinese public during the Winter Olympics in Beijing, China trained many of its sports champions at home, through its juguo (whole nation) sports regime. And now China is applying the juguo approach -- deploying massive resources to achieve a strategic objective or build national prestige -- to attaining world-class technological prowess.
Time to bury the laissez-faire zombie for good
Oped, Luigi Zingales, Published on 22/12/2021
» 'The return of the state" is a phrase seemingly on almost everyone's lips nowadays. Given the global challenges posed by the Covid-19 pandemic and climate change, the argument goes that it is governments, not markets, that should be responsible for allocating resources. New Deal-style state intervention is back.